The deep history of ourselves by Joseph LeDoux 2019
A soup to nuts history of life, humanity and consciousness. LeDoux rightly roots his account of...
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Category: EVOLUTION BOOKS
Who we are and how we got here by David Reich 2018
Humans are really mixed up. The book is focussed on what DNA call tell us about human origins....
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Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari 2016
A fascinating but doom-laden account of our future. Harari is a no-holds-barred materialist. With...
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A natural history of human thinking by Michael Thomasello 2014
An explicitly social account of the evolution of human thinking. This is a succinct but dense...
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The primordial emotions by Derek Denton 2005
Consciousness overrules the primordial emotions. Like certain writers (albeit a minority of them),...
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The better angels of our nature by Steven Pinker 2011
Pinker’s book provides a lengthy and comprehensive argument that levels of violence have...
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