Human Nature, Mind, and Culture
Websites
What does it mean to be human?
(Smithsonian Museum of Natural History)
Becoming Human (Institute of Human Origins)
Center for Evolutionary Psychology
Online video
Closer to the Truth interview series
Books
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes, by
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth, by Chris Stringer
A Natural History of Human Thinking, by Michael Tomasello
The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition, by Gregory Hickock
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, by Eric R. Kandel
The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain, by Terrence W. Deacon
Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, by Frans de Waal
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, by Jonathan Haidt
The Neuroscience of Religious Experience, by Patrick McNamara
Amythia: Crisis in the Natural History of Western Culture, by Loyal D. Rue
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality, by Patricia Churchland
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved, by Frans de Waal
Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain, by Antonia Damasio
The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared M. Diamond
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts, by Stanislas Dehaene
Spirit Unleashed: Reimagining Human-Animal Relations, by Anne Benvenuti
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, by Carl Safina
Our Beleaguered Species: Beyond Tribalism, by Elizabeth Crouch Zelman
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari
Darwin’s Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences, Joseph Carroll, Dan McAdams, E.O. Wilson (editors)