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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
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The Secret of Our Success

By Joseph Henrich ,

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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
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Catching Fire

By Richard Wrangham ,

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Upgrade

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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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The WEIRDest People in the World

By Joseph Henrich ,

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Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
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Your Inner Fish

By Neil Shubin ,

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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea

By Daniel Dennett ,

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Darwin's Radio
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Darwin's Radio

By Greg Bear ,

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The Immense Journey
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The Immense Journey

By Loren Eiseley ,

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More Than Human
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More Than Human

By Theodore Sturgeon ,

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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
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Our Final Invention

By James Barrat ,

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Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
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Being a Human

By Charles Foster ,

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The Descent Of Man
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The Descent Of Man

By Charles Darwin ,

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Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
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Maps of Time

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Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Stay Healthy, and Lose Weight
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Burn

By Herman Pontzer ,

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The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
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The Age of Wood

By Roland Ennos ,

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Forbidden Archeology
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Forbidden Archeology

By Michael A. Cremo , Richard L. Thompson ,

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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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Homo Deus

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Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
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Why We Love

By Helen Fisher ,

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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World
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The Evolution of Beauty

By Richard O. Prum ,

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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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The Story of the Human Body

By Daniel E. Lieberman ,

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Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
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Lucy

By Donald Johanson , Maitland Edey ,

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War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views
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War, Peace, and Human Nature

By Douglas P. Fry ,

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Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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Origins

By Lewis Dartnell ,

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Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Blood Type Diet Solution
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Eat Right 4 Your Type

By Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo , Catherine Whitney ,

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The Dopaminergic Mind in Human Evolution and History
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The Dopaminergic Mind in Human Evolution and History

By Fred H. Previc ,

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Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story
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Our Family Tree

By Lisa Westberg Peters ,

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The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution
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The Magic School Bus Explores Human Evolution

By Joanna Cole , Bruce Degen (illustrator) ,

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Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
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Not by Genes Alone

By Peter J. Richerson , Robert Boyd ,

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Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior
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Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior

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The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
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The Goodness Paradox

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A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System
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A History of Humanity

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The Power
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The Power

By Frank M. Robinson ,

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The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
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The Creation of Inequality

By Kent Flannery , Joyce Marcus ,

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First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human
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First Steps

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Origins of the Sacred: The Ecstasies of Love and War
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Origins of the Sacred

By Dudley Young ,

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A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future
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A New Reality

By Jonas Salk , Jonathan Salk ,

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Questioning Spirituality: Is It Irrational to Believe in God?
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Questioning Spirituality

By Eldon Taylor ,

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How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say about Human Difference
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How to Argue with a Racist

By Adam Rutherford ,

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Re-Enchanting the Earth: Why AI Needs Religion
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Re-Enchanting the Earth

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The Runaway Brain: The Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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The Runaway Brain

By Christopher Wills ,

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Why We Run: A Natural History
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Why We Run

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Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human
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Radical Evolution

By Joel Garreau ,

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Empathica
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Empathica

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Noema
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Noema

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The Parrot in the Mirror: How evolving to be like birds made us human
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The Parrot in the Mirror

By Antone Martinho-Truswell ,

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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
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The Singing Neanderthals

By Steven Mithen ,

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Genes, Peoples and Languages
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Genes, Peoples and Languages

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Understanding Human Evolution
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Understanding Human Evolution

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Non-Stop
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Non-Stop

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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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The Mating Mind

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How the Mind Works
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How the Mind Works

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Big History: Between Nothing and Everything
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Big History

By David Christian , Cynthia Brown , Craig Benjamin

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Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins
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Bones of Contention

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The Science of Self-Empowerment
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The Science of Self-Empowerment

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The Artificial Ape
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The Artificial Ape

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New World New Mind
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New World New Mind

By Robert Ornstein , Paul Ehrlich ,

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