Reading List

The following is a list of books that have been mentioned in the podcasts.

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Adapted Mind – Leda Cosmides and John Tooby
Anatomy of an Epidemic – Robert Whittaker
And the Sea Will Tell – Vincent Bugliosi
Blank Slate – Steven Pinker
Blind Watchmaker – Richard Dawkins
Catching Fire – Richard Wrangham
Chimpanzee Politics –  Frans de Waal
China Study – T Colin Campbell
Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge – E.O. Wilson
Curse of the Self – Mark Leary
Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is as Necessary as Love and Sex – David Buss
Descent of Man – Charles Darwin
Diet for a New America – John Robbins
Evolution of Desire – David Buss
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind – David Buss
Expression of Emotions in Man & Animals – Charles Darwin
Extended Phenotype – Richard Dawkins
Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research – Derek Freeman
Folly of Fools – Robert Trivers
Guns Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond
Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi
How I found Freedom in an Unfree world – Harry Browne
How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker
Human Groups & Social Categories – Henri Tajfel
I’m Ok, You’re Ok – Thomas Anthony Harris
Interpersonal Rejection – Mark Leary
Mating in Captivity – Esther Perel
Mating Mind – Geoffrey Miller
Metaphysics – Aristotle
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol Dweck
Moral Animal – Robert Wright
Moral Molecule: How Trust Works – Paul J. Zak
Natural Hygiene: Pristine Way of LIfe – Herbert Shelton
Obedience to Authority – Stanley Milgram
On Human Nature – E.O. Wilson
Outrage: OJ Simpson – Victor Bugliosi
Pleasure Trap – Doug Lisle and Alan Goldhamer
Promise of Sleep – William Dement
Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal – Peter Breggin
Rational Optimist – Matt Ridley
Reading People – Jo-Ellan Dimitrius
Red Queen – Matt Ridley
Science and Fine Art of Fasting – Herbert Shelton
Self Presentation – Mark Leary
Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
Six Pillars of Self-Esteem – Nathaniel Branden
Social Anxiety – Mark Leary
Social Identity and Intergroup Relations – Henri Tajfel
Spent – Geoffrey Miller
Starch Solution – John McDougall
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty – Nancy Etcoff
Talent Code – Daniel Coyle
The Republic – Plato
When I Say No, I Feel Guilty – Manuel Smith
Why We Feel: The Science of Human Emotion – Victor S. Johnston
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength – Roy Baumeister
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections on and Off the Court – John Wooden
Your Perfect Right: Assertiveness & Equality in Life & Relationships – Michael L. Emmons and Robert E Alberti