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In Search of Human Origins: Classroom Ideas
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/outpost/resource_lesson1.html
Lesson Plans Introduce evolution, classify species, and write quizzes about early humans to get a better understanding of human origins.

Inside the Animal Mind
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/animalmind/
A superb website on animal intelligence.

Intraspecific Exploitative Mimicry in Humans
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/hagen/dd.html
Humans have evolved to rely very heavily on cooperation with conspecifics. This web page presents the best possible explanation for this complex phenomenon.

Jack Parsons Home Page
http://jackparsons.members.beeb.net/
Comprehensive coverage of the scholarly work of the writer, lecturer, & consultant on population, development, & related social, political, & ethical problems.

Jared Diamond
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/diamond/
An audio interview with the author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and biogeographer.

Koen DePryck
http://www.KDPgroup.com/
Links to publications on evolutionary advantages of learning disabilities and other items.

Language Gene
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1148343
NPR interview with Steven Pinker on the discovery of the first gene linked to speech and language.

Margaret Hagen
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/hagen/
Audio interview with an expert on visual perception.

Matt Ridley: The Evolution of a Darwinian
http://www.publishersweekly.com/articles/20000306_85142.asp
Article on 'Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters'.

MFTSource Theory: Evolutionary Psychology
http://mftsource.com/theory.evpsych.htm
MFTSource.com Theory Page on Evolutionary Psychology organizes useful clinical resources for working from this framework on a variety of issues and diagnoses.

Monkey Math
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jan/hour1_010700.html
What do experiments on mathematical ability in other species say about the fundamentals of math -- and of psychology?

Nature/Nurture Debate
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1010508
Audio discussion featuring Dean Hamer.

No Nobels, One Failure, a Few Regrets - How did the Genius Sperm-bank Donors Turn Out?
http://slate.msn.com/id/103402/
The story of The Repository for Germinal Choice as told by David Plotz in Slate magazine.

NPR - Focus on Ordinary Behavior
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1071573
Radio interview with the founder of "The Journal of Mundane Behavior."

Origins of Language
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Sep/hour2_090895.html
When did we first start talking and how did language evolve over the millenniums into the diverse form of communication it is today? An audio debate.

Orlando Patterson
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/patterson/
Audio interview with the historical sociologist and Professor at Harvard University. He won the 1991 National Book Award for Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, appears regularly in The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Republic. He also served as special adviser for social policy and development to Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley during the 1970's, was on the faculty at the London School of Economics, and has published three novels.

Paul Ehrlich: Human Natures
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Oct/hour2_102700.html
How much do our genes determine our behavior? Is there such a thing as "genetic destiny?" And is evolution merely a biological process, or is it a cultural process as well?

Pinker on 'The Language Instinct'
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1107515
NPR audio interview originally broadcast on Fresh Air.

Psychology, Culture, and Evolution
http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~acheyne/
Speculations on the Psychology of Paleolithic Graphics, links to cultural-historical psychology, and links to articles about the evolution of brain, consciousness, language, and sociality.

Replicators: Evolutionary Powerhouses
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004367/home.shtml
Replicators are the fundamental units of any process of natural selection. They were first defined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins as any entities of which copies are made. The concept of replicators has diverse applications in a variety of areas, including biology, sociology, linguistics, and philosophy.

Research Group on Evolution and Higher Cognition
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/ArchiveFolder/Research%20Group/research.html
Center at Rutgers University provides faculty profiles, information on courses and conferences. Also offers an archive of papers.

Richard Wrangham
http://www.paulagordon.com/shows/wrangham/
Audio interview with the Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. His book 'Demonic Males' popularized ideas he has developed in scholarly research focused on the influence of ecology on the evolution of primate social behavior.

Scientists 'Locate' Intelligence
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/844217.stm
British and German scientists believe they have identified the specific area of the human brain responsible for intelligence.=

Secrets of the brain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/837632.stm
The organ of thought is the subject of a major new BBC television series 'Brain Story'.

Sex, Drugs, and Cults
http://human-nature.com/nibbs/02/cults.html
An evolutionary perspective on sex, drugs, cults, religions, and ideologies by H. Keith Henson, including a hair-raising account of the author's encounters with the scientiology cult.

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