Evolution Reading List

Readings on Evolution & Human Nature Ron Good, Louisiana State University rgood@lsu.edu 8/23/01 PDF Version — Get Adobe® Acrobat® Reader Abrahamson, P. & Pinkerton, S., eds. 1995. Sexual Nature/Sexual Culture. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Aleixandre, M. 1994. Teaching evolution and natural selection: A look at textbooks and teachers. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 31: 519-535. Alexander, R. 1987. The Biology of Moral Systems. Aldine, Hawthorne, NY. Allman, J. 1999. Evolving Brains. Scientific American Library, New York. Alper, M. 2000. The "God" Part of the Brain. Rogue Press, New York. Alters, B. & Alters, S. 2001. Defending Evolution: A Guide to the Creation/Evolution Controversy. Jones & Bartlett, Sudbury, MA. Arnhart, L. 1998. Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature. SUNY Press, Albany, NY. Austin, J. 1998. Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Bagemihl, B. 1999. Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. St. Martin’s Press, New York. Bailey, J. & Pillard, R. 1991. A genetic study of male sexual orientation. Archives of General Psychiatry 48: 1089-96. Barkow, J., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. 1992. The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and The Generation of Culture. Oxford University Press, New York. Barondes, S. 1999. Molecules and Mental Illness. Scientific American Library, New York. Barton, R. 1997. Visual Specialisation, Brain Evolution, and Behavioural Ecology in Primates. Blackwell, Berlin. Betzig, L. ed. 1997. Human Nature: A Critical Reader. Oxford University Press, New York. Biological Sciences Curriculum Study. 2000. Genes, Evolution, and Human Behavior. Author, Colorado Springs, CO. Blum, D. 1998. Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men + Women. Penguin Books, New York. Boesch, C. 1991. Teaching among wild chimpanzees. Animal Behavior 41: 530-532. Boyd, R. & Richerson, P. (1985). Culture and the Evolutionary Process. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Boyd, R. & Silk, J. 1997. How Humans Evolved. Norton, New York. Boyer, P. 1994. The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion. University of California Press, Berkeley. Brown, D.E. 1991. Human Universals. McGraw-Hill, New York. Bruer, J. 1999. The Myth of the First Three Years: A New Understanding of Early Brain Development and Life-long Learning. Free Press, New York. Bryant, P. 1992. Arithmetic in the cradle. Nature, 358: 712-713. Burkert, W. 1996. Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religion. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Burr, C. 1996. A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation. Hyperion, New York. Buss, D. 1994. The Evolution of Desire. Basic Books, New York. Buss, D. 1999. Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of Mind. Allyn & Bacon, Needham Heights, MA. Byrne, R. 1995. The Thinking Ape: Evolutionary Origins of Intelligence. Oxford University Press, New York. Calvin, W. 1996. How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now. Basic Books, New York. Carey, S. 1998. Knowledge of number: Its evolution and ontogeny. Science, 282: 641-642. Caro, T. 1992. Is there teaching in non-human animals? Quarterly Review of Biology 67: 151-174. Chomsky, N. 1988. Language and the Problems of Knowledge. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Clark, G. & Willermet, eds. 1997. Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research. Aldine, New York. Conroy, G. 1997. Reconstructing Human Origins: A Modern Synthesis. Norton, New York. Coyne, J. 1998. Not black and white. Nature, 396: 35-36. Crick, F. 1994. The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul. Simon & Schuster, New York. Cummings, M. 1997. Human Heredity: Principles and Issues. Wadsworth, New York. Damasio, A. 1999. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. Harcourt Brace, New York. D’Aquili, E. 1999. The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, MN. Darwin, C. 1860 edition (Engel, ed. 1962). The Voyage of the Beagle. Doubleday, New York. _______. 1859. The Origin of Species. Murray, London. _______. 1871. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. 2 vols. John Murray, London. _______. 1872. The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Dawkins, R. 1986. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design. Norton, New York. _______. 1989. 2nd ed. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Dawson, G. & Fischer, K., eds. 1994. Human Behavior and the Developing Brain. Guilford Press, New York. Dehaene, S. 2000. Cerebral basis of number processing and calculation. In The New Cognitive Neurosciences, ed. Gazzaniga. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Demastes, S., Good, R. & Peebles, P. 1996. Patterns of conceptual change in evolution. Journal Of Research in Science Teaching 33: 407-431. Dennett, D. 1995. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, New York. Desmond, A. & Moore, J. 1992. Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. Warner, New York. de Waal, F. 1996. Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Other Animals. HarvardUniversity Press, Cambridge, MA. _______. 1997. Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. Diamond, J. 1992. The Third Chimpanzee. Harper Collins, New York. Diamond, J. 1997. Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality. Basic Books, New York. Dobzhansky, T. 1970. Genetics of the Evolutionary Process. Columbia University Press, New York. _______. 1973. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. American Biology Teacher 35: 125-129. Donald, M. 1991. Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture And Cognition. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Dugatkin, L. 1997. The evolution of cooperation. Bioscience 47: 355-362. Dunbar, R. 1993. Co-evolution of neo-cortical size, group size, and language in humans. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16: 681-735. Durham, W. 1991. Co-evolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. Duveen, J. & Soloman, J. 1994. The great evolution trial: Use of role-play in the classroom. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 31: 575-582. Edelman, G. 1992. Bright Air, Brilliant Fire: On the Matter of Mind. Basic Books, New York. Ehrlich, P. 2000. Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect. Island Press, Washington, D.C. Ekman, P. & Davidson, R., eds. 1994. The Nature of Emotion: Fundamental Questions. OxfordUniversity Press, New York. Eldridge, N. 1999. The Pattern of Evolution. Freeman, New York. Eldridge, N. 2000. The Triumph of Evolution and the Failure if Creationism. Freeman, New York. Ellis, L. 1989. Theories of Rape: Inquiries into the Causes of Sexual Aggression. Hemisphere, New York. Epstein, J. & Axtell, R. 1996. Growing Artificial Societies. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Ernulf, K., & Innala, S. 1989. Biological explanation, psychological explanation, and toleranceof homosexuals. Psychological Reports 65: 1003-1010. Ewald, P. 1994. Evolution of Infectious Disease. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Feduccia, A. 1996. The Origin and Evolution of Birds. Yale University Press, New Haven. Feldman, M. 1997. Twin studies, heritability, and intelligence. Science 284: 278. Fleagle, J. 1999. Primate Adaptation and Evolution. Academic Press, San Diego. Foley, R. 1995. Humans before Humanity. Blackwell, Oxford. Fortey, R. 1997. Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth. Knopf, New York. Fox, R. 1997. Conjectures and Confrontations: Science, Evolution, Social Concern. Transaction, New Brunswick, NJ. Freeman, S. & Herron, C. 1998. Evolutionary Analysis. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. Freeman, D. 1999. The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. Frith, C. & Frith, U. 1999. Interacting minds: A biological basis. Science 286: 1692-1695. Futuyma, D. 1995. Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution. Sinauer Publishers, Sunderland, MA. Futuyma, D. 1998. Evolutionary Biology. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA. Gallup, G. & Newport, F. 1991. Belief in paranormal phenomena among adult Americans. Skeptical Inquirer 15: 137-146. Gazzaniga, M. 1998. The Mind’s Past. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. Gazzaniga, M., ed. 2000. The New Cognitive Neurosciences. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Geary, D. 1998. Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. Ghiglieri, M. 1999. The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Male Violence. Perseus Books, Reading, MA. Gibbons, A. 1998. Which of our genes make us human? Science 281: 1432-1434. Goldsmith, T. 1990. Optimization, constraint, and history in the evolution of eyes. Quarterly Review of Biology 65: 281-322. Goldsmith, T. & Zimmerman, W. 2001. Biology, Evolution, and Human Nature. Wiley, New York. Good, R., Trowbridge, J., Demastes, S., Wandersee, J., Hafner, M., & Cummins, C. 1993. Proceedings of the 1992 Evolution Education Research Conference. Author. Good, R., Hafner, M, & Peebles, P. 2000. Scientific understanding of sexual orientation: Implications for science education. American Biology Teacher. 62: 326-330. Goodman, M. 1999. The genomic record of humankind’s evolutionary roots. American Journal Of Human Genetics 64: 31-39. Gonsiorek, J. & Weinrich, J. 1991. Homosexuality: Research Implications for Public Policy. Sage, Newbury Park, CA. Gould, J. & Marler, P. 1987. Learning by instinct. Scientific American 256: 74-85. Gould, S. 1977. Ever Since Darwin. Norton, New York. Grant, P. 1998. Evolution on Islands. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Griffin, D. 1992. Animal Minds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Hacking, I. 1999. The Social Construction of What? Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Hamer, D., Hu, S., Magnuson, V. Hu, N. & Pattatucci, A. 1993. A linkage between DNA markers on the X chromosome and male sexual orientation. Science, 261: 321-327. Hamer, D. & Copeland, P. 1994. The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior. Simon & Schuster, New York. _______. 1998. Living with Our Genes. Anchor, New York. Hamilton, W. 1964. The genetic evolution of social behavior. Journal of Theoretical Biology 7: 1-52. Harcourt, A. & de Waals, F. eds. 1992. Coalitions and Alliances in Humans and Other Animals. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Harris, J. 1998. The Nuture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do. Free Press, New York. Hauser, M. 1996. The Evolution of Communication. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Howells, W. 1997. Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution. Compass Press, Washington, DC. Hrdy, S. 1999. Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection. Pantheon Books, New York. Humphrey, N. 1992. A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness. Chatto & Windus, London. Jackendorff, R. 1994. Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature. Basic Books, New York. Jankowiak, W., Hill, E., & Donovan, J. 1992. The effects of sex and sexual orientation on Attractiveness judgments: An evolutionary interpretation. Ethology and Social Biology 13: 73-85. Jeffery, K. & Roach, L. 1994. A study of the presence of evolutionary protoconcepts in pre-high school textbooks. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 31: 507-518. Johanson, D. & Edgar, B. 1996. From Lucy to Language. Simon & Schuster, New York. Johnson-Laird, P. & Oatley, K. 1992. Basic emotions, rationality, and folk-theory. Cognition And Emotion 6: 201-223. Jones, S., Martin, R. & Pilbeam, D., eds. 1992. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Kagan, J. 1998. Three Seductive Ideas. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Kalat, J. 1998. Biological Psychology. Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, CA. Kandel, E., Schwartz, J., & Jessell, T. 1995. Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior. Appleton and Lange, Stamford, CT. Kellert, S. & Wilson, E. eds. 1993. The Biophilia Hypothesis. Island Press, Washington, DC. Kitcher, P. 1996. The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities. Penguin Books, London. Klein, R. 1999. The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Krebs, J. & Davies, N., eds. 1997. Behavioral Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach. Blackwell, Oxford. Larson, E. 1997. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Lawson, A. 1999. A scientific approach to teaching about evolution & special creation. The American Biology Teacher 61, 266-274. Leakey, R. 1994. The Origin of Humankind. Basic Books, New York. LeVay, S. 1993. The Second Brain. MIT Press, Cambridge. _______. 1996. Queer Science. MIT Press, Cambridge. LeVay, S. & Hamer, D. 1994. Evidence for a biological influence in male homosexuality. Scientific American 270: 44-49. Levy, S. 1992. The Antibiotic Paradox: How Miracle Drugs Are Destroying the Miracle. Plenum Press, New York. Lewin, R. 1998. Principles of Human Evolution. Blackwell, Malden, MA. Li, W. 1997. Molecular Evolution. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. Lieberman, P. 1998. Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution. Norton, New York. Lumsden, C. & Wilson, E. 1981. Genes, Mind, and Culture. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Mange, E. & Mange, A. 1999. Basic Human Genetics. Sinaur Associates, Sunderland, MA. Maynard Smith, J. 1998. Evolutionary Genetics. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Mayr, E. 1982. The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. _______. 1988. Toward a New Philosophy of Biology. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. _______. 1991. One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern EvolutionaryThought. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. McElvaine, R. 2000. Eve’s Seed: Biology, the Sexes, and the Course of History. McGraw-Hill, New York. McGuire, M. & Troisi, A. 1998. Darwinian Psychiatry. Oxford University Press, New York. National Academy of Sciences. 1998. Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science. National Academy Press, Washington, DC. Nei, M. 1995. Genetic support for the out-of-Africa theory of human evolution. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences USA 92: 6720-6722. Nesse, R. & Williams, 1995. Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. Times Books, New York. Newberg, A., D’Aquili, E., & Rause, V. 2001. Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science & the Biology of Belief. Ballantine Books, New York. Nitecki, M. & Nitecki, D. eds. 1993. Evolutionary Ethics. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY. Numbers, R. 1993. The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. Orr, H., Dawkins, R., Dennett, D., & Shapiro, A. 1996. Denying Darwin: David Berlinski and Critics. Commentary (September): 4-39. Otto, S. 1997. Unraveling gene interactions. Nature 390: 343. Paradis, J. & Williams, G. 1989. Evolution and Ethics. Princeton University Press, Princeton. Parker, S. & McKinney, M. 1999. Origins of Intelligence: The Evolution of Cognitive Development in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Parr, L. & deWaal, F. 1999. Visual kin recognition in chimpanzees. Nature, 399: 647-648. Parsons, T. 1964. Evolutionary universals in society. American Sociological Review. 29: 339-357. Pattatucci, A. & Hamer, D. 1995. Development and familiarity of sexual orientation in females. Behavioral Genetics, 25: 407-419. Pennisi, E. 1999. Are our primate cousins "conscious"? Science 284: 1984-1985. Pennock, R. 1999. Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Pinker, S. 1994. The Language Instinct. HarperCollins, New York. _______. 1997. How the Mind Works. Norton, New York. Plomin, R., DeFries, J. & McClearn, G. 1990. Behavioral Genetics: A Primer. W.H. Freeman, New York. Plomin, R., Owen, M., & McGuffin, P. 1994. The genetic basis of complex human behaviors. Science 264: 1733-1739. Profet, M. 1988. The evolution of pregnancy sickness as protection to the embryo against Pleistocene teratogens. Evolutionary Theory 8: 177-190. Raymo, C. 1998. Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science And Religion. Walker, New York. Ridley, M. 1993. The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. Penguin Books, New York. _______. 1996. Evolution. Blackwell Science, Cambridge, MA. _______. 1996. The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation. Penguin Books, London. Ruhlen, M. 1994. The Origin of Languages. Wiley, New York. Ruse, M. 1986. Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy. Blackwell, Cambridge, MA. _______. 1996. Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. _______. 1999. Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction? Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Sagan, C. 1996. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Ballantine Books, New York. Scharmann, L. 1993. Teaching evolution: Designing successful instruction. American Biology Teacher 55: 481-486. Scott, E. 1997. Antievolution and creationism in the United States. Annual Review of Anthropology 26: 263-289. Settlage, J. 1994. Conceptions of natural selection: A snapshot of the sense-making process. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 31: 449-457. Shermer, M. 2000. How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science. W.H. Freeman, New York. Silver, L. 1997. Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family. Avon Books, New York. Small, M. 1998. Reinventing sex: The construction of realistic definitions of sex and gender. American Biology Teacher 60: 590-593. Smith, J. 1998. Evolutionary Genetics. Oxford University Press, New York. Smuts, B. 1994. The evolutionary origins of patriarchy. Human Nature 3: 1-32. Sober, E. & Wilson, E. 1998. Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Soule, W. & Lease, G., eds. 1995. Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction. Island Press, Washington, DC. Stearns, S. 1999. Evolution in Health and Disease. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Sterelny, K. & Griffiths, P. 1999. Sex and Death: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Stevens, A. & Price, J. 1996. Evolutionary Psychiatry: A New Beginning. Routledge, New York. Stevenson, L. & Haberman, D. 1998. Ten Theories of Human Nature. 1998. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Stoddart, D. 1990. The Scented Ape: The Biology and Culture of Human Odour. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Swinburne, R. 1996. Is There a God? Oxford University Press, New York. Tattersall, I. 1998. Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness. Harcourt Brace, New York. Torrance, R. 1994. The Spiritual Quest: Transcendence in Myth, Religion, and Science. University of California Press, Berkeley. Trigg, R. 1986. Evolutionary ethics. Biology and Philosophy 1: 325-335. Tomasello, M. & Call, J. 1997. Primate Cognition. Oxford University Press, New York. Trowbridge, J. & Wandersee, J. 1994. Identifying critical junctures in learning in a course on evolution. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 31: 459-473. Wasser, S., ed. 1999. Evolutionary Theory and Processes: Modern Perspectives. Kluwer, Dordrecht. Webster, R. 1995. Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science, and Psychoanalysis. Basic Books, New York. Weiner, J. 1999. Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior. Vintage Books, New York. Weiskrantz, L. 1997. Consciousness Lost and Found: A Neuropsychological Exploration. Oxford University Press, New York. Whitfield, P. 1993. From So Simple a Beginning: An Illustrated Exploration of the 4-Billion-Year Development of Life on Earth. Macmillan, New York. Wilson, E. 1978. On Human Nature. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. _______. 1984. Biophilia. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. _______. 1998. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. Knopf, New York. Wrangham, R. & Peterson, D. 1996. Demonic Males. Houghton Mifflin, New York. Wright, R. 1994. The Moral Animal: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology. Random House, New York. Wright, W. 1999. Born That Way. Routledge, New York.

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