6 Important Evolutionary Psychology Books

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1. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
This must read looks at the concepts of the blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine in an exploration of morals, emotions, and politics.

2. The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
This provocative book covers everything from genetic strategies and office politics to moral codes and public policies.

3. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The original edition was published almost 40 years ago and remains a classic in evolutionary thought.

4. The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating by David M. Buss
Based on one of the biggest ever cross cultural studies, this book explores why

Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene

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we have desires and how they often lead to conflict.

5. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller
What role did sexual selection play in shaping the human mind?

6. The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby
How did evolutionary forces shape the architecture of the human mind?