Books covered on The Dissenter
1. 
Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
by:
Michael Shermer
3.88 avg rating — 602 ratings 2. 
The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth Geosphere
by:
Eric Smith
4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings 3. 
Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault 3.88 avg rating — 1,911 ratings
4. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,283 ratings 
6. 
Evolution of Vulnerability: Implications for Sex Differences in Health and Development
by:
David C. Geary
did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
8. 
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
by:
Jerome H. Barkow
4.21 avg rating — 253 ratings 
11. 
The Sexual Paradox: Extreme Men, Gifted Women and the Real Gender Gap
by:
Susan Pinker
3.84 avg rating — 447 ratings 12. 
The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
by:
Susan Pinker
3.78 avg rating — 747 ratings 13. 
Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
by:
Johan Norberg
4.05 avg rating — 1,728 ratings 14. 
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
by:
Kevin Simler
3.97 avg rating — 8,131 ratings 15. 
The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars
by:
Bradley Campbell
4.30 avg rating — 318 ratings 
19. 
Moral Animals: Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory
by:
Catherine Wilson
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 20. 
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why 3.82 avg rating — 3,555 ratings
21. 
A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion
by:
Randy Thornhill
3.49 avg rating — 226 ratings 
23. 
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (Evolution and Cognition)
by:
Peter Carruthers
3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings 24. 
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us 3.91 avg rating — 14,816 ratings
27. 
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better 4.13 avg rating — 7,059 ratings
28. 
The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
by:
Gad Saad
3.70 avg rating — 720 ratings 29. 
Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
by:
Lee Jussim
3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings 30. 
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
by:
Barbara Oakley
3.71 avg rating — 656 ratings 
33. 
Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities
by:
Diane F. Halpern
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings 34. 
How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories
by:
Alex Rosenberg
3.32 avg rating — 224 ratings 
36. 
Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
by:
Alan Page Fiske
3.89 avg rating — 76 ratings 
38. 
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society 3.87 avg rating — 398 ratings
40. 
Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture
by:
James Tabery
4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings 
42. 
The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy 4.23 avg rating — 1,883 ratings
43. 
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
by:
David Benatar
3.89 avg rating — 2,132 ratings 
45. 
The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve 4.25 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
46. 
The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution 4.19 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
48. 
Mating Intelligence Unleashed: The Role of the Mind in Sex, Dating, and Love
by:
Glenn Geher
3.70 avg rating — 206 ratings 
50. 
Climate, Clothing, and Agriculture in Prehistory: Linking Evidence, Causes, and Effects
by:
Ian Gilligan
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings 51. 
Consciousness and Fundamental Reality (Philosophy of Mind Series)
by:
Philip Goff
4.22 avg rating — 64 ratings 
53. 
Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
by:
Héctor A. García
4.22 avg rating — 51 ratings 54. 
Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
by:
Helen Fisher
3.75 avg rating — 3,357 ratings 
57. 
The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity
by:
Arlindo Oliveira
3.56 avg rating — 88 ratings 58. 
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
by:
Cecilia Heyes
3.77 avg rating — 179 ratings 59. 
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes 3.87 avg rating — 3,579 ratings
61. 
Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
by:
Pascal Boyer
3.91 avg rating — 379 ratings 62. 
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives
by:
Michele Gelfand
3.72 avg rating — 948 ratings 
64. 
A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters
by:
Steven C. Hayes
4.26 avg rating — 2,076 ratings 65. 
Positive Evolutionary Psychology: Darwin's Guide to Living a Richer Life
by:
Glenn Geher
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 66. 
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry 3.94 avg rating — 2,316 ratings
68. 
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
by:
Sarah E. Hill
4.04 avg rating — 11,275 ratings 69. 
The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences
by:
Herbert Gintis
3.79 avg rating — 47 ratings 
71. 
On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
by:
Robert A. Burton
3.90 avg rating — 2,330 ratings 72. 
A Savage Order: How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
by:
Rachel Kleinfeld
4.11 avg rating — 131 ratings 73. 
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The Temperamental Thread: How Genes, Culture, Time and Luck make Us Who We Are
by:
Jerome Kagan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 94 ratings 
82. 
The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction
by:
Henry T. Greely
3.73 avg rating — 67 ratings 
85. 
Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work
by:
John Danaher
3.65 avg rating — 60 ratings 
87. 
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
by:
Rob Dunn
4.20 avg rating — 2,401 ratings 88. 
The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys
by:
David Benatar
3.70 avg rating — 156 ratings 89. 
Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special 4.13 avg rating — 39 ratings
90. 
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by:
Steven Pinker
4.20 avg rating — 31,748 ratings 
93. 
Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism (Philosophy, Technology and Society)
by:
Sven Nyholm
4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings 94. 
The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum
by:
Robert L. Kelly
4.11 avg rating — 91 ratings 95. 
Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
by:
Robert L. Kelly
3.99 avg rating — 197 ratings 96. 
The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (Oxford Ethics Series)
by:
Jeff McMahan
3.96 avg rating — 75 ratings 97. 
The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature
by:
Iris Berent
3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings 98. 
Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
by:
Hugo Mercier
3.89 avg rating — 441 ratings 
100. 
The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve (Evolution and Cognition)
by:
H. Clark Barrett
4.41 avg rating — 37 ratings