 | How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £2.99 Very good introduction to many areas of modern science about brain and behavior.
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 | The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Penguin Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £2.99 Pinker on his own field -- linguistics. Very good about how linguistics is based on human psychology.
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 | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Penguin Press Science) by Steven Pinker
Buy new: £7.14 / Used from: £4.85 Dismissal of an extreme view that is held by surprisingly many.
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 | Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £0.43 Very good and up-to-date about the genetic basis.
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 | Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.95 Should be able to convince anybody that the old -- and very fruitless -- nature vs nurture-debate is based on philosophically confused and factually wrong premises.
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 | The Triumph of Sociobiology by John Alcock
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £7.15 Lays out the basic claims that should be acceptable to all. Evolutionary psychology (a.k.a. sociobiology) is a serious, fertile new science and here to stay.
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 | Evolutionary Psychology by Alan Clamp
Buy used from: £3.50 A short textbook, gives you an overview of the different areas of evolutionary psychology. A bit on the dry side.
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 | Human Evolutionary Psychology by Louise Barrett
Buy new: £21.69 / Used from: £18.87 More in-depth textbook. Very good exposition of debates in the field.
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 | The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £6.85 About the evolutionary basis of the moral sentiments. (But it still isn´t right to be bad!)
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 | The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought by Gary Marcus
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.68 How the genes make the brain. And -- as Steven Pinkes has put it -- "the mind is what the brain does".
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