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Readings
for Book Report Select one of the following books. Write a typed 4-6 page double-spaced report on the book, due Monday, November 30th at the beginning of class. On the Origins of Gender Inequality. Joan Huber The Blank Slate. Steven Pinker Evolution for Everyone. David Sloan Wilson MindBlindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind. Simon Baron Cohen The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain Simon Baron Cohen. The Nurture Assumption Judith Rich Harris. What shapes individual personalities? No Two Alike Judith Rich Harris. Why are no two people alike? Biosociology of Dominance and Deference. Allan Mazur Guns, Germs and Steel. Jared Diamond. Incest: Origins of the Taboo Jonathan Turner and Alexandra Maryanski Strangers in a Strange Land - Humans in an Urbanizing World. Douglas S. Massey
The
Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins. The
book that coined the term. Why sex matters. A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior. Bobbi S. Low Evolution of Human Sociality. Stephen K. Sanderson Chimpanzee Politics Frans de Waal. Just
what the name says. Mother
Nature Sarah Hrdy. A definitive
overview of motherhood. Homicide
Martin Daly and Margo Wilson. An
evolutionary view of murder. Anatomy
of Love Helen Fisher. An
evolutionary view of love. The Red Queen Matt Ridley. An evolutionary view of the evolution of sexual reproduction. The
Evolution of Human Sexuality Donald
Symons. Another book about sex.
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are still waiting for the definitive evolutionary view of rock and roll. Despotism
and Differential Reproduction Laura
Betzig. Big wigs have all the fun. The
Woman That Never Evolved Sarah Hrdy.
Sarah Hrdy's first famous book of evolutionary feminism. The Triumph of Sociobiology. John Alcock. What Is Evolutionary Psychology : Explaining the New Science of the Mind by Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Helena Cronin (Editor) Oliver Curry (Editor). An introduction to the field. A Natural
History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming our Primal Instincts By Terry Burnham, Jay Phelan. Evolutionary self-help. The First Sex. The Natural Talents of Women and How They are Changing the World. Helen Fisher. The Evolution of Desire. David Buss. More about human mating.
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