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Help me pick a book for my Evo Devo class! [more inside]
posted by messylissa on Oct 14, 2008 - 1 answer

Literary Darwinism: A relatively new field of evolutionary psychology / literary theory. What has recently been written in argument against it? [more inside]
posted by 0bvious on Jun 3, 2008 - 7 answers

Why would siblings who don't know they're siblings be attracted to each other? [more inside]
posted by AmbroseChapel on Jan 12, 2008 - 28 answers

Bernard Williams had a pretty low opinion of evolutionary biology. Are there any essays where he directly or indirectly criticizes the field? What about 'Shame and Necessity'? [more inside]
posted by BigSky on Nov 27, 2007 - 12 answers

New York Creative Writing/Critical Theory PHD: I am currently undertaking an MA in Creative Writing and Critical Theory in London, and plan to go on to PHD after I finish. I would ideally like to go to an East coast USA/New York university to do this (for several reasons). I'd like some help with finding a good list of possible institutions... [more inside]
posted by 0bvious on Oct 16, 2007 - 26 answers

What are the best sources for a layman to learn more about evolutionary psychology? [more inside]
posted by Bookhouse on May 18, 2007 - 33 answers

I'm trying to track down a graph I once saw in a book - pretty sure it was an evolutionary psychology book - that compared the ratio of number of mates/sexual partners with either brain or body size among primates. Humans fell somewhere in the middle, at about 2.5 mates each (i.e. an argument about how "natural" monogamy is to our species.) Any ideas?
posted by gottabefunky on Oct 3, 2006 - 10 answers