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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature — Atran, S., and D. L. Medin.
- Social Learning Theory. — Bandura, A.
- Evolution of the Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies, — Evolution of the Mind: Fundamental Questions and Controversies,
- Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution. — Berlin, B., and P. Kay.
- Adam’s Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans. — Bickerton, D
- How Children Learn the Meaning of Words. — Bloom, P.
- Culture and the Evolutionary Process. — Boyd, R., and P. J. Richerson.
- How Humans Evolved. — How Humans Evolved.
- Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family. — Briggs, J. L.
- Social Learning across Cultures: Universality and Cultural Variability. — Broesch, T.
- Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD. — Brown, P.
- Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind. — Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind.
- Machiavellian Intelligence: Social Expertise and the Evolution of Intellect in Monkeys, Apes, and Humans. — Byrne, R. W.
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone. — Chandrasekaran, R.
- Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society. — Chapais, B.
- Language Evolution. — Christiansen, M. H., and S. Kirby.
- The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics. — Dehaene, S.
- Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention. — Dehaene, S.
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. — Diamond, J.
- Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity. — Durham, W. H.
- Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony. N — Edgerton, R. B.
- The Creation of Inequality: How our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire. — Flynn, J. R.
- Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century. — Flynn, J. R.
- The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion — Frazer, J. G.
- The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought. — Gelman, S. A.
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. — Haidt, J.
- The Comanche Empire. Lamar Series in Western History. — Hämäläinen, P.
- The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism. — Hayek, F. A. v., and W. W. Bartley.
- The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction Studies in the Evolution of Language. — Heine, B., and T. Kuteva.
- Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies. — Henrich, J., R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, and H. Gintis,
- Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation — Henrich, N., and J. Henrich.
- Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child’s Construction of Human Kinds. — Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child’s Construction of Human Kinds.
- The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins. — Klein, R. G.
- The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease. — Lieberman, D.
- The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language. — Maynard Smith, J., and E. R.
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. — McDougall, C.
- Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History. — McNeill, W. H.
- The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently … and Why. — Nisbett, R. E.
- Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict. — Norenzayan, A.
- Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind. — Pagel, M. D.
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. — Pinker, S.
- How the Mind Works. — Pinker, S.
- Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution. — Richerson, P. J., and R. Boyd.
- A Plague of Corn: The Social History of Pellagra. — Roe, D. A.
- Diffusion of Innovations. — Rogers, E. M.
- Evolutionary Ecology and Human Behavior. — Smith, E. A., and B. Winterhalder.
- Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach. — Sperber, D.
- Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth. — Stringer, C.
- The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. — Tomasello, M.
- The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures. — Wade, N.
- A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History. — Wade, N.
- Everything Is Obvious*: How Common Sense Fails Us. — Everything Is Obvious*: How Common Sense Fails Us.
- The Social Conquest of Earth. — Wilson, E. O.
- Mind, Society and Behavior. — World Bank Group.
- Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human. — Wrangham, R. W.