[PDF] Top 20 Book Review: The Human That Never Evolved

... as the persistent and pertinacious inadequacies of widely held evolutionary perspectives on human sexuality ...of the most ambitious. Opting out of the formal academic style of writing, ... See full document

... to the worst fears and easily accessible stereot ypes (availability heuristic) of his readers (“Judge for yourself whether my generalizations correspond to your experience” ...inaccurate. The new elite are ... See full document

... Among the many shoulders she stands on a few deserve special ...volume, The Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking (2004), which makes a wonderful companion volume to ...in the ... See full document

... influencing human behavior, are we truly able to control our actions? Do we actually make choices, or are they made for us early in life or before we are even born? Raine claims that free will ranges from ... See full document

... In the Name of God, by John Teehan, takes the evolutionary framework and applies it to the reading of religious ...texts. The result is a provocative discussion of the ubiquitous ... See full document

... Admittedly, the author’s version overstates the degree of affiliation between “average” chimp and dominant male(s), but upon first reading it nonetheless made me smile, since it appealed simultaneously to ... See full document

... On the heels of these dueling forewords comes the editors’ anecdotal introduction, highlighted by a rather unremarkable recounting of the misunderstood Darwinian graduate student, Jonathan Gottschall ... See full document

... His book is engaging and contains many important insights about children’s social ...holds the promise of a much richer understanding of child ...proposed that human behavior must be seen in ... See full document

... Hence the famous “Wizard of Oz” line: “Lions and tigers and bears, oh ...to that list ...complete the species list Quammen addresses in his book about man-eaters: “Monsters of ...a book ... See full document

... how the camel got his hump, or the elephant his ...of the latter match the humor and wit demonstrated by Don Symons in his 1983 exposition of the Flying On Air Theory (FLOAT), which ... See full document

... addressed the issues in Levy’s book fall into two camps: those who support evolutionary accounts of human behaviour and those who support social learning and cultural ...misrepresent the ... See full document

... text that constitute the body of Human Accomplishment, the whole of African culture is given six references—significantly less than the biographical dictionary entries for Forrest ... See full document

... The book is full of other gems large and small, such as the pet peeve of Trivers against using the word “kid” as a synonym for “child”, claiming that “I thought it absurd (and ... See full document

... believe that one significant methodological pitfall is inherent in Bender's project that he neither sufficiently acknowledges nor adequately ...over the significance of ...in the evolutionary ... See full document

... of the medical profession, from doctors to students and allied health professionals so that they can “gain a more complete understanding of the processes that shap e the human ... See full document

... address the crucial question that all of this raises: How (by what mechanism) did hominid males secure control over their kinswomen such that they became possessions of men and objects of exchange, ... See full document

... problem that needs to be examined if evolution is true, gives background information about the particular area of research, and then showcases the empirical evidence that supports ...to ... See full document

... and the implications for technology implementation, require solutions to technological needs that, while perhaps quite different from highly technological societies, are obviously very practical for ...to ... See full document

... concludes the first chapter by stating, “Whether kluges outnumber perfections or perfections outnumber kluges, kluges tell us two things that perfections can’t” ...in the chapter, Marcus employs ... See full document

... new book is a synthesis of the decade-long experimental work of the Tomasello labs with an eye to the theoretical discussions on the origins of the social ...portrayed. ... See full document