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The Human Limits of Nature (Popularity:  )
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper43.html
'The Limits of Human Nature' was the title of the London Institute of Contemporary Arts winter lecture series for 1971-72. ...
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Malthus on Man - In Animals no Moral Restraint (Popularity: )
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap107.html
A paper was presented to a conference on 'Malthus, Medicine and Science' organised by Roy Porter at the Wellcome Institute, ...
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What if Human Nature Is Historical (Popularity: )
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper61.html
This essay moves from pure ideology about changing human nature to using biofeedback as a transitional topic to spelling out ...
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Get Real (Popularity: )
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/getreal.htm
Daniel Dennett responds to his critics.
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Sociobiology Sanitized: The Evolutionary Psychology and Genic Selectionism Debates (Popularity: )
http://human-nature.com/science-as-culture/dusek.html
Socio-political overview of the circumstances leading to the development of Evolutionary Psychology as distinct from Sociobiology, by Val Dusek. This ...
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Menarche (Popularity: )
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7294/1095
Any decrease in average menarcheal age during the past 20-30 years has been small (almost certainly less than six months), ...
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Why we're all getting brighter (Popularity: )
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4173806,00.html
Dumbing down? Don't believe it. Scientists have proved we are smarter now than ever before, largely because we watch TV, ...
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Humans-Who Are We? - Official Web Site (Popularity: )
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1998/6/22/article_01.htm
Humans are brimming with unique traits that do not fit the animal mold - according to the Jehovah's Witnesses.
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Scholarship and the History of the Behavioural Sciences (Popularity: )
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper57.html
A paper that first appeared in History of Science 2: 1-51, 1966.
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Evolution, Biology and Psychology from a Marxist Point of View (Popularity: )
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/paper46.html
This article is largely historical, but the issues remain timely.
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Prediction and Accommodation in Evolutionary Psychology (Popularity: )
http://philosophy.wisc.edu/forster/papers/Lakatos.htm
Ketelaar and Ellis have provided a remarkably clear and succinct statement of Lakatosian philosophy of science and have also argued ...
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The Meanings of Darwinism: Then and Now? (Popularity: )
http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap124.html
Charles Darwin grew up in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and attended Shrewsbury School for seven years. The school held a Millennium Conference ...
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"The Mind as the Software of the Brain" by Ned Block (Popularity: )
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/msb.html
Cognitive scientists often say that the mind is the software of the brain. This chapter is about what this claim ...
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Bottlenose dolphins and theory of mind (Popularity: )
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/101086398v1
Bottlenose dolphins can recognize themselves in a mirror, an advanced intellectual ability observed previously only in humans and apes.
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Fear makes worms turn friendly (Popularity: )
http://www.nature.com/nsu/010503/010503-1.html
A single gene influences the social behaviour of worms.
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Ancestors (Popularity: )
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0417_leakeyinterview.html
Meave Leakey discusses her team's recent skull find suggesting a new human ancestor.
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Gene-Trapping Method Powers Discovery of New Brain-Wiring Signals (Popularity: )
http://www.hhmi.org/news/tessier4.html
Marc Tessier-Lavigne and William C. Skarnes unveil a technique that "enables scientists to identify new genes and to determine which ...
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Ring-breaker drives dove love (Popularity: )
http://www.nature.com/nsu/010503/010503-2.html
Leonida Fusani and colleagues discover the role of aromatase in courtship behaviour.
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Domestication (Popularity: )
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=587270
DNA is revealing that taming animals was not a simple process.
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Exorcising the Homunculus: There's No One Behind the Curtain (Popularity: )
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/noelle_21_2.html
The traditional view of the will as a kind of little man in your head needs to be replaced by ...
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