Evolutionary Psychology
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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Steven Pinker
4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings 3. 
The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
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David M. Buss
4.16 avg rating — 3,899 ratings 4. 
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind
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David M. Buss
4.34 avg rating — 1,562 ratings 5. 
Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back Into Politics
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Gleb Tsipursky
4.39 avg rating — 121 ratings 6. 
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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Robert Wright
4.08 avg rating — 11,843 ratings 
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The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 17,202 ratings 9. 
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Steven Pinker
4.01 avg rating — 22,310 ratings 
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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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Geoffrey Miller
4.11 avg rating — 2,746 ratings 12. 
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
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Joseph Henrich
4.39 avg rating — 2,080 ratings 13. 
The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
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Gleb Tsipursky
3.93 avg rating — 272 ratings 
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The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes 3.87 avg rating — 3,580 ratings
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A Mind of Her Own: The Evolutionary Psychology of Women
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Anne Campbell
4.22 avg rating — 88 ratings 19. 
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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Jared Diamond
4.08 avg rating — 28,336 ratings 
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Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
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Pascal Boyer
3.98 avg rating — 2,408 ratings 23. 
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
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Nicholas Wade
3.73 avg rating — 1,541 ratings 24. 
The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is as Necessary as Love and Sex
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David M. Buss
3.96 avg rating — 338 ratings 25. 
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
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Richard Dawkins
4.12 avg rating — 9,499 ratings 26. 
Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
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Robin Baker
3.91 avg rating — 2,963 ratings 27. 
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The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture
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Jerome H. Barkow
4.21 avg rating — 253 ratings 31. 
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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Gleb Tsipursky
4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings 31. 
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Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species 4.44 avg rating — 878 ratings
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Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
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Gad Saad
3.94 avg rating — 8,298 ratings 35. 
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The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve 4.25 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty
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Nancy L. Etcoff
3.78 avg rating — 1,944 ratings 38. 
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding 4.13 avg rating — 639 ratings
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A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire
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Sai Gaddam
3.83 avg rating — 4,073 ratings 38. 
Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression
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Héctor A. García
4.23 avg rating — 388 ratings 
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Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide
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Héctor A. García
4.22 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion
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Randy Thornhill
3.49 avg rating — 226 ratings 46. 
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The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
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David M. Buss
3.66 avg rating — 923 ratings 48. 
When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault
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David M. Buss
4.09 avg rating — 858 ratings 49. 
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
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Matt Ridley
4.03 avg rating — 4,184 ratings 
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The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
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Gad Saad
3.70 avg rating — 720 ratings 
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating — 63,327 ratings 56. 
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
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Bryan Sykes
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,556 ratings 56. 
Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
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Jena Pincott
3.67 avg rating — 813 ratings 
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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Nichola Raihani
3.93 avg rating — 618 ratings 
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The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution 4.19 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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Life History Evolution: A Biological Meta-Theory for the Social Sciences 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire
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Daniel Bergner
3.60 avg rating — 2,358 ratings 65. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,270 ratings 66. 
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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Neil Shubin
4.04 avg rating — 28,099 ratings 67. 
Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
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Helen Fisher
3.88 avg rating — 1,926 ratings 68. 
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
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Lewis Wolpert
3.64 avg rating — 627 ratings 
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
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Charles Darwin
3.99 avg rating — 1,291 ratings 71. 
What Is Evolutionary Psychology: Explaining the New Science of the Mind
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Leda Cosmides
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings 72. 
Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature
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David J. Buller
3.75 avg rating — 79 ratings 73. 
The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism 3.64 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
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Melvin Konner
3.65 avg rating — 355 ratings 75. 
The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life
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Jesse Bering
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,326 ratings 75. 
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
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Frans de Waal
4.19 avg rating — 4,317 ratings 75. 
The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness
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Douglas J. Lisle
4.12 avg rating — 2,311 ratings 
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Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond
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Lydia Denworth
3.64 avg rating — 785 ratings 75. 
Conflicts of Fitness: Islam, America, and Evolutionary Psychology
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A.S. Amin
4.13 avg rating — 148 ratings 75. 
The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
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Avi Tuschman
4.20 avg rating — 280 ratings 82. 
Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered
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Bruce D. Perry
4.33 avg rating — 2,872 ratings 82. 
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The Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe
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Stephen C. Meyer
4.42 avg rating — 1,443 ratings 
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Ape Mind, Old Mind, New Mind: Emotional Fossils and the Evolution of the Human Spirit (1)
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John V. Wylie
3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings 87. 
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Dan Ariely
4.12 avg rating — 129,364 ratings 87. 
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind
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Kevin N. Laland
4.08 avg rating — 156 ratings 
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating — 28,420 ratings 92. 
The Barmaid's Brain And Other Strange Tales From Science
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Jay Ingram
3.66 avg rating — 253 ratings 92. 
Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences
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David C. Geary
4.17 avg rating — 52 ratings 92. 
Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind
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Ajit Varki
3.54 avg rating — 262 ratings 96. 
Evolutionary Principles Of Human Adolescence
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Glenn Weisfeld
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 96. 
Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences
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John R. Hibbing
4.01 avg rating — 315 ratings 96. 
Braindance: New Discoveries about Human Origins and Brain Evolution
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Dean Falk
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings 99. 
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
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Esther Perel
4.17 avg rating — 47,207 ratings 99. 
Forget About Today: Bob Dylan's Genius for (Re)invention, Shunning the Naysayers, and Creating a Personal Revolution
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Jon Friedman
2.98 avg rating — 49 ratings