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The Development of Herbert Spencer's Concept of Evolution - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/spencer.html
A paper delivered to the Eleventh International Congress of the History of Science, Warsaw, August 1965 and published in Actes du Xle Congres International d'Histoire des Sciences Warsaw: Ossolineum, 1967, vol. 2, pp. 273-78. |
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Darwin on the Evolution of Morality - http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/D.onM.html
Paper presented for the session on the 19th century biology, International Fellows Conference (Center for Philosophy of Science, Univ. of Pittsburgh), May 20-24, Castiglioncello, Italy by Soshichi Uchii, Kyoto University. |
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The Genetic Archaeology of Race - http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200104/olson
The study of human genetic variation has become the most contentious area in modern science. A detailed article by Steve Olson. |
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NYTimes.com: Exuberance is Rational - http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20010211mag-econ.html
Richard Thaler has led a revolution in the study of economics by understanding the strange ways people behave with their money. |
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IQ and Longevity - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7290/871/a
Results of an intelligence test, given to all 11-year olds attending Aberdeen schools in 1932, were used to determine survival up to 76 years. Of 2,230 subjects traced, those who died before 1 January 1997 had a significantly lower IQ at age 11 years than those who were alive or untraced. This suggests that high mental ability in late childhood reduces the chances of death up to age 76. |
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Genes, Culture and Human Freedom - http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000000552D.htm
Like every other organism, humans are shaped by both nature and nurture. But unlike any other organism, we are defined by our ability to transcend both. Article by Kenan Malik. |
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An Evolutionary Hypothesis For Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - http://cogprints.org/1147/
Abed, Riadh T and de Pauw, Karel W (1999) An Evolutionary Hypothesis for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Psychological Immune System?. Behavioural Neurology 11:245-250. |
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Evolutionary Ethics and Biologically Supportable Morality - http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/TEth/TEthByro.htm
A paper by Michael Byron. |
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Why elephants don't forget - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1285532.stm
A study of African elephants reveals that dominant females build up a social memory as they get older, helping the herd to survive. |
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Darwin, Marx, Freud and the Foundations of the Human Sciences - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper9.html
This is a talk on the grand view of the human sciences, presented to CHEIRON, the European Society for the History of the Behavioural Sciences and reprinted in its Newsletter, Spring 1988, pp. 7-12. |
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Baboon Key to Human Stress - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/san_francisco/1173924.stm
Article describes how the stresses and strains that afflict humans are evident in baboon societies. Also suggests that both species share the long-term health effects. |
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You've Got a Lot to Answer For, Charlie Darwin - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4039888,00.html
Is psychology frozen in the Pleistocene era? Hilary and Steven Rose are sure it must have evolved since then. |
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Palaeoanthropology and Politics - http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000053AD.htm
Norman Levitt reflects on the Kennewick Man affair. |
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Has Psychology Become Respectable at Last? - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4150424,00.html
The past decade witnessed the surge of "evolutionary psychology". Its most thoughtful exponents, such as Robert Plomin, are confident that economics, education and sociology will all benefit from evolutionary psychology and gene mapping. |
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Darwinism and the Division of Labour - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap109.html
The founding conference of the British Society for the Social Responsibility in Science in November 1970, was on the theme, 'The Social Impact of Modern Biology'. The conference was attended by a number of eminent scientists, e.g., Nobel Laureates James Watson, Jaques Monod, Maurice Wilkins; David Bohm, Jacob Bronowski, R.G. Edwards (of Steptoe and Edwards, the pioneers of 'test-tube babies'), as well as some radicals, Hilary and Steven Rose, John Beckwith. It was, perhaps, the last moment when radicals and posh scientists were relatively united. The talk was published in The Listener, 17 August 1972, pp. 202-5 and in Science as Culture no. 9: 110-24, 1990. |
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Association of Ideas - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper58.html
This essay appeared in Philip P. Wiener, ed., 'Dictionary of the History of Ideas'. |
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The Darwin Debate - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper83.html
This essay appeared in Marxism Today 26 (no.4), April 1982, pp. 20-22. |
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Herbert Spencer and Inevitable Progress - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper84.html
Spencer is so grandiose that it is hard to summarize his ideas, yet he was one of the most influential thinkers in nineteenth-century Britain, and his ideas were an inspiration around the world. His version of evolution was utterly generalised in all the ways Darwin tried to be circumspect. The organic analogies which Spencer developed are the foundation-stones for the widespread idea of functionalism across the biomedical and human sciences, extending to architecture, systems theory, cybernetics and information theory. The essay was reprinted in a collection from the journal: G. Marsden, ed., Victorian Values. Longman, 1990. |
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Menarche - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7294/1095
Any decrease in average menarcheal age during the past 20-30 years has been small (almost certainly less than six months), particularly when compared with the reduction of a year or more that occurred in many European countries between the late 19th and mid 20th centuries. |
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The Naturalization of Value Systems in the Human Sciences - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper45.html
This essay first appeared as an Open University Course Unit for 'Science and Belief: from Darwin to Einstein', Block VI: Problems in the Biological and Human Sciences. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1981, pp. 63-110. |
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Evolution, Biology and Psychology from a Marxist Point of View - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper46.html
This article is largely historical, but the issues remain timely. |
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Perfect Pitch May Help Babies Speak - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/san_francisco/1179664.stm
US researchers say everyone may be born with perfect pitch to help them learn the skills of language. |
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Darwinism is Social - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper60.html
This essay appeared on David Kohn, ed., 'The Darwinian Heritage'. Princeton and Nova Pacifica, 1985, pp. 609-638. |
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Swanson et al. - http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/5/2509
A new study by Willie J. Swanson and colleagues provides evidence of sperm competition and sexual conflict. |
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The adaptive nature of the human neurocognitive architecture: An alternative model - http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/95/19/11290
The model of the human neurocognitive architecture proposed by evolutionary psychologists is based on the presumption that the demands of hunter-gatherer life generated a vast array of cognitive adaptations. Here we present an alternative model. |
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Mozart 'can cut epilepsy' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1251839.stm
Music, particularly Mozart, could have a therapeutic effect on epilepsy, say scientists. |
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Behavioral Inferences from the Skhul/Qafzeh Early Modern Human Hand Remains - http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/041588898v1
These results support the inference of significant behavioral differences between Neanderthals and the Skhul/Qafzeh hominids and indicate that a significant shift in human manipulative behaviors was associated with the earliest stages of the emergence of modern humans. |
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To Love, Honour and Deceive - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1296607.stm
Long-term relationships are fundamentally dishonest. And it's all women's fault, new research suggests. |
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Psychology - http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr01/darwin.html
Psychology will soon be transformed by both neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, predicts primatologist Frans B.M. de Waal, PhD. |
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Intentionality Detection and Mindreading: Why Does Game Form Matter? - http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/97/8/4404
By around the age of 4 years, children can work out what people might know, think or believe based on what they say or do. This is called mindreading, which builds upon the human ability to infer the intentions of others. |
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Steven Pinker: The Mind Reader - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3926387,00.html
Article by Ed Douglas on the evolutionary psychologist with a popular touch and a mission to explain how the brain works. |
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Malthus on Man - In Animals no Moral Restraint - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap107.html
A paper was presented to a conference on 'Malthus, Medicine and Science' organised by Roy Porter at the Wellcome Institute, London, on 20 March 1998. |
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Did the Caveman Teach Us to Queue? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1184388.stm
Chris Horrie provides a critique of the discipline in this BBC News article. |
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Humans-Who Are We? - Official Web Site - http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1998/6/22/article_01.htm
Humans are brimming with unique traits that do not fit the animal mold - according to the Jehovah's Witnesses. |
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Sport and genetics - http://www.medsci.org/archives/athleticgene.html
Stephen Jay Gould and Kipchoge Keino on why athletic achievement isn't in the genes. |
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Men Show Feelings In Lower Left Quadrant Of Face - http://unisci.com/stories/20011/0216014.htm
When it comes to emotions men and women are equally expressive, but men display most of their joy, disgust or other sentiments in the lower left quadrant of their face. Women, on the other hand, show their emotions across their entire countenance. |
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Darwin's Darling - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3896379,00.html
A profile of Helena Cronin. |
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Darwin's Metaphor and the Philosophy of Science - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper8.html
This was first presented to the Piaget Seminar, University of Geneva, about 1986 and published in Science as Culture (no. 16) 3: 375-403, 1993. It draws out the philosophical implications of 'Darwin's Metaphor' (Cambridge, 1985), in particular, the role of metaphorical and teleological language in Darwin. |
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Guardian Unlimited - And Darwin created us all - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3817786,00.html
As two of the world's great Darwinists prepare to debate whether science is killing the soul, Tim Radford asks if natural selection is the key to life, the universe, and everything. |
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Stone Age Bosses Aren't all That Bad - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4116809,00.html
Applied to business, as Nigel Nicholson does in his book Managing the Human Animal, evolutionary psychology suggests that most organizational practice runs directly against the grain of human programming. |
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Origins of the specious - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3936439,00.html
Andrew Brown explains why 'Introducing Evolutionary Psychology', the latest in Icon Books' popular series of comic books on important subjects, has been withdrawn from sale while 10,000 stickers are pasted over the face of Steven Rose. |
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Human Genome - http://www.nature.com/genomics/human/overview/press-releases.html
Comprehensive information on the first draft of the human genome from Nature. |
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Animal Soul - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper59.html
A history of the idea and a critique of reductionism. It appeared in Paul Edwards, ed., 'The Encyclopedia of Philosophy.' |
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Animal Cognition and Animal Minds - http://colinallen.dnsalias.org/TAMU/Papers/konstanz.html
A paper by Colin Allen. |
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How Hardwired Is Human Behavior? - http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/products/hbr/julaug98/98406.html
Abstract and electronic delivery of Nigel Nicholson's paper in the Harvard Business Review. |
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Humans and Other Animals - http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/135/11.0.html
How much do we share with the birds of the air and the beasts of the field? Article by John Wilson at Christianity Today. |
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The Human Limits of Nature - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper43.html
'The Limits of Human Nature' was the title of the London Institute of Contemporary Arts winter lecture series for 1971-72. The distinguished group of contributors, included Alan Ryan, Arthur Koestler, David Bohm, Raymond Williams and John Maynard Smith. This contribution was published in J. Benthall, ed., 'The Limits of Human Nature' (Allen Lane, 1973), pp. 235-74. |
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What if Human Nature Is Historical - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper61.html
This essay moves from pure ideology about changing human nature to using biofeedback as a transitional topic to spelling out the desiderata for treating human nature as a historical project. |
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Why we're all getting brighter - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4173806,00.html
Dumbing down? Don't believe it. Scientists have proved we are smarter now than ever before, largely because we watch TV, surf the net, and spend hours chatting to friends. |
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Scholarship and the History of the Behavioural Sciences - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper57.html
A paper that first appeared in History of Science 2: 1-51, 1966. |
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Darwin: Man and Metaphor - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper7.html
This is the text of a television documentary in the series 'Late Great Victorians', BBC1, 1988. It was also published in Science as Culture no. 5: 71-86, 1989. |
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The Meanings of Darwinism: Then and Now? - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap124.html
Charles Darwin grew up in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and attended Shrewsbury School for seven years. The school held a Millennium Conference on 'Darwinism and Ethics for the Next Millennium' on 16 October 1999. Papers were given by Mary Midgley, Matt Ridley, Colin Tudge and Robert M. Young. |
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A Bottom-up Approach with a Clear View of the Top - http://www-abc.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/users/ptodd/publications/94revevpsy/94revevpsya.htm
Online paper by G. F. Miller and P. M. Todd. |
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Darwin and the Genre of Biography - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper48.html
Published in G. Levine, ed., 'One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature'. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, pp. 203-24. |
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Ancestors - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0417_leakeyinterview.html
Meave Leakey discusses her team's recent skull find suggesting a new human ancestor. |
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Gene-Trapping Method Powers Discovery of New Brain-Wiring Signals - http://www.hhmi.org/news/tessier4.html
Marc Tessier-Lavigne and William C. Skarnes unveil a technique that "enables scientists to identify new genes and to determine which genes are responsible for defects in brain wiring that are observed during development". |
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Domestication's Family Tree - http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=587270
DNA is revealing that taming animals was not a simple process. |
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Reproductive Greontology - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4170048,00.html
The relationship between aging and the risk of producing offspring with gene-influenced illnesses. |
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The Functions of the Brain: Gall to Ferrier (1808-1886) - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/func.html
An online paper on mind, brain, and adaptation in the nineteenth century. It was published in Isis 59: 251-68, 1968. |
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Evolutionary Biology and Ideology: Then and Now - http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper38.html
A paper contributed to a conference on 'The Social Impact of Modern Biology'. It appeared in Science Studies 1: 177-296, 1971. |