Healing The Moral Animal: Reading List

Healing the Moral Animal: Lessons from Evolution 19th Cape Cod Institute July 20-24, 1998

NET SITES: The Behavior OnLine Forum on Evolutionary Psychology : http://www.behavior/net (240+ short essays on topics in evolutionary psychology, hosted by James Brody) Pay particular attention to essays on behavior genetics (series under Here Comes Grand Dad Again), mania, psychological adaptations, supernormal stimuli, and psychopathology and phase transitions.

Evolution's Voyage: http://www.evoyage.com (Evolution's Voyage: for the Common Person, hosted by Bill Spriggs)

Human Behavior and Evolution Society: http://psych.lmu.edu/hbes.htm

Sci.Bio.Evolution Home Page: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jahayes/evolution/index.html.

Origin of Humankind: www.humanevolution.com

IF YOU WANT TO READ ONLY ONE BETWEEN NOW AND JULY, PICK:

Sagan, C., & Druyan, A. (1992) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. New York: Random House.

Wright, R. (1994) The Moral Animal. Why we are the way we are: The new science of evolutionary psychology. New York: Pantheon.

Fisher, H. (1992) Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and Divorce. New York: Norton.

GENERAL:

Barkow, J., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1992) (Eds.) The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. New York: Oxford. Buss, D. (1994) The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating. New York: Basic Books. Crawford C & Krebs D (1997), Eds., Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. ($75-$150! Get the paperback that is rumored to exist.) Fisher, H. (1992) Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and Divorce. New York: Norton. Glantz, K., & Pearce, J. (1989) Exiles from Eden: Psychotherapy from an Evolutionary Perspective. New York: Norton. Leakey, R. (1994) The Origin of Humankind. New York: Basic Books. Morgan, E (1990) The Scars of Evolution: What Our Bodies Tell Us About Human Origins. NY: Oxford. (controversial, lucid, funny) Nesse R & Williams G (1995) Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. NY: Vintage. Ridley, M. (1993) The Red Queen: Sex & the Evolution of Human Nature. NY: Penguin. Sagan, C., & Druyan, A. (1992) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. New York: Random House. Simpson J & Kendrick D (1997) (Eds.) Evolutionary Social Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Sulloway, F. (1996) Born To Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives. New York: Pantheon. Wright, R. (1994) The Moral Animal. Why we are the way we are: The new science of evolutionary psychology. New York: Pantheon.

BEHAVIOR GENETICS:

Bailey, M. (1997) Can behavior genetics contribute to evolutionary behavior science? In Crawford C & Krebs D (Eds) Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 211-234. (Heck yes!) Dawkins, R. (1976, 1989) The Selfish Gene. New York: Oxford. (Good introduction to neodarwinism, the idea that genes are the actual time travelers and we are their vehicles. Fun, perspective altering.) ----- (1986) The Blind Watchmaker. New York: Norton. Plomin R, DeFries J, McClearn G, & Rutter M (1997) Behavioral Genetics (3rd ed.) NY: Freeman. (Undergraduate introductory text. Concise. Ridiculously expensive.)

MORAL BEHAVIOR:

Arnhardt, L. (1998) Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature. Due 4/98 from SUNY Press. De Waal, F (1996) Good Natured: The Evolution of Right & Wrong in Humans and other Animals. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press. (highly recommended! along with Chimpanzee Politics which has a new edition pending) Krebs D. The evolution of moral behavior. In Crawford C & Krebs D (1997), Eds., Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (don't buy the book for this one chapter!) Nitecki M & Nitecki D (1993) (Eds.) Evolutionary Ethics. Albany: State Univ. of NY Press. Wright, R. (1994) The Moral Animal. Why we are the way we are: The new science of evolutionary psychology. New York: Pantheon.

SEXUAL SELECTION (A BRANCH OF MORAL BEHAVIOR):

Buss, D. (1994) The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating. New York: Basic Books. Cronin H (1991) The Ant and the Peacock. Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today. NY: Cambridge Daly, M & Wilson, M. (1988) Homicide. NY: Aldine. Fisher, H. (1992) Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and Divorce. New York: Norton. Ridley, M. (1993) The Red Queen: Sex & the Evolution of Human Nature. NY: Penguin.

MODULAR DESIGN AND OUR NERVOUS SYSTEM:

Barkow, J., Cosmides, L., & Tooby, J. (1992) (Eds.) The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. New York: Oxford. Hirschfeld, L. & Gelman, S., (Eds), (1994) Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture. NY: Cambridge Univ Press.

GRAND THEORIES OF EVERYTHING ... Beyond Darwinian Thinking:

Stewart I (1998) Life's Other Secret: The New Mathematics of the Living World. NY: Wiley. (Seems more lucid than Kauffman or Goodwin and targets similar concepts. The place to start in this topic area.) Goodwin, B (1994) How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity. NY: Simon & Schuster. (Good companion to Kauffman) Kauffman, S. (1995) At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. NY: Oxford. (A most satisfactory Grand Theory of Everything. Hard work but worth it) Kelly, K. (1994) Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. Fun, bright, can be handled by those with short attention spans. Margulis L & Sagan D (1997) Slanted Truths: Essays in Gaia, Symbiosis, and Evolution. NY: Springer-Verlag. (some hostile remarks about sociobiology but rewarding introduction to symbiosis as an evolutionary force.)

FOR THE TRUE SEEKER:

Darwin, C. (1859) On the Origin of Species. London: Murray. Wilson, E.O. (1975) Sociobiology: The Abridged Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard. Kauffman, S. (1993) Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection and Evolution. NY: Oxford. (Rough going but likely to change your views about nearly everything. You will have some problem finding other people to talk to afterwards.)

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