Books

Below is a rogue's gallery of unrelenting adaptationist story telling. We can't actually (in good conscience) recommend them, but if you really must read them then you can get them from Amazon.com or your local library. (The kickback scheme explained.*)

• Barkow, J. H., L. Cosmides and J. Tooby
  • The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
• Cziko, G.
  • Without Miracles : Universal Selection Theory and the Second Darwinian Revolution
• Dawkins, R.
  • The Selfish Gene
  • The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
  • Climbing Mount Improbable
• Dennett, D.
  • Darwin's Dangerous Idea : Evolution and the Meanings of Life
• Morris, D.
  • The Naked Ape
  • The Human Sexes : A Natural History of Man and Woman
  • The Human Animal; A Personal View of the Human Species
• Pinker, S.
  • How the Mind Works
• Williams, G. C. and R. M. Nesse
  • Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
• Wrangham, R. and D. Peterson
  • Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
• Wright, R.
  • The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

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