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A publication focusing on different aspects of human nature. Includes online copies of the articles, related news and book reviews.
Published in G. Levine, ed., 'One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature'. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987, pp. 203-24.
This essay first appeared as an Open University Course Unit for 'Science and Belief: from Darwin to Einstein', Block VI: Problems in the Biological and Human Sciences. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1981, pp. 63-110.
A paper that first appeared in History of Science 2: 1-51, 1966.
The study of human genetic variation has become the most contentious area in modern science. A detailed article by Steve Olson.
A single gene influences the social behaviour of worms.
Bottlenose dolphins can recognize themselves in a mirror, an advanced intellectual ability observed previously only in humans and apes.
The British Medical Journal publishes a special edition "putting genetics into perspective".
A classic text on cerebral localization and its biological context from Gall to Ferrier.
A complete book from the National Academy Press available online.
Complete online publication from the National Academy Press.
Genetics and Paleontology 50 Years After Simpson. Walter M. Fitch and Francisco J. Ayala, Editors, for the National Academy of Sciences. The full text is available here.
Emily Eakin reviews 'Killer Woman Blues: Why Americans Can't Think Straight About Gender and Power' by Benjamin Demott.
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A review, and links to other information about and reviews of 'Darwin's Worms' by Adam Phillips.
A General Theory of Love, by three long-time collaborating psychiatrists, Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, is a compelling and timely discussion not only of love between lovers, but love between parents and children, therapists and patients.
Professor Steve Jones has rewritten Darwin's 'Origin of Species', a book that contains ideas which are just as controversial today as they were 140 years ago.