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This pages provides links to all the items available through the Darwin@LSE website. These readings are also organised by event and speaker.

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Toby Andrew, Darwinism for downbeat times, Living Marxism February 1997

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Claiming Darwin for the Left: An interview with Peter Singer by Julian Baggini, The Philosophers' Magazine
The pursuit of happiness: Peter Singer interviewed by Ronald Bailey, Reason December 2000
Simon Baron-Cohen, First lessons in mind reading, Times Higher Education Supplement 16 June 1995
Baron-Cohen, S et al (1998), Autism occurs more often in families of physicists, engineers, and mathematicians (PDF) Autism 2, 296-301
Baron-Cohen, S (1999) The extreme-male-brain theory of autism (PDF), in Tager-Flusberg, H (ed) Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press.
Simon Baron-Cohen, They just can't help it, London Guardian 17 April 2003
Baron-Cohen, S (2004) Autism: Research into causes and intervention (PDF) Paediatric Rehabilitation 7, 73-78
Simon Baron-Cohen (2005) Is autism an extreme of the male brain? (lecture Powerpoint presentation)
Baron-Cohen, S and Wheelwright, S (2004) The Empathy Quotient (EQ). An investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism, and normal sex differences (PDF) Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 34, 163-175
Design for A Life: A talk with Patrick Bateson
Peter Berkowitz, The utilitarian horrors of Peter Singer. Other people's mothers, The New Republic 30 December 1999
Susan Blackmore (2002) The evolution of meme machines
Andrew Brown, Survival of the surliest, London Guardian 4 March 1999
Andrew Brown, Origins of the specious, London Guardian 30 November 1999
Andrew Brown, The kindness of strangers [Robert Trivers profile], London Guardian 27 August 2005
Kingsley Browne (1998) Divided Labours: An evolutionary view of women at workDarwinism Today
Kingsley Browne, Glass ceiling, biological floor, Times Higher Education Supplement  2 October 1998
Kingsley Browne, Segregation of the sexes is here to stay, Financial Times 10 October 1998
Kingsley Browne, A revolution of the sexes, London Independent 13 October 1998
Kingsley Browne and Rosalind Arden, Prospect debate: Sex at work, Prospect October 1998
Brunner, E (1997) Socioeconomic determinants of health: Stress and the biology of inequality, British Medical Journal 314, 1472 (17 May)
Jerome Burne, Got the evolution blues, London Independent 3 July 1997
Buss, D M (2002)  Human mating strategies (PDF) Samfundsokonomen 4, 47-58
Buss, D M, & Schmitt, D P (1993)  Sexual Strategies Theory: A contextual evolutionary analysis of human mating (PDF) Psychological Review 100, 204-232
A S Byatt, Belief in the jungle of ideas (review of Wilson, E O, Consilience) London Guardian 29 August 1998

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David Charter, 0.85 seeks 0.7 for 2.4, Times Higher Education Supplement  11 August 1995
Kate Clanchy, Reluctant fathers and feeble sperm, London Guardian 7 March 2000
Connolly, J M, Slaughter, V, Mealey, L (2004) The development of preferences for specific body shapes, Journal of Sex Research, February
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, Evolutionary psychology: A primer
Cronin, H (1997) It's only natural, Red Pepper, 38 (July), 21
Cronin, H (2000) Getting human nature right, Edge 73
Cronin, H (2001) Natural born co-operators: Darwinism for policy-makers, Rationalist Press Association: Proceedings of the Centennial Conference.
Rationalism in the twenty-first century, pp. 26-8
Cronin, H (2005) The vital statistics, London Guardian, 12 March readers' responses: 16 March, 19 March
Cronin, H and Curry, O (2000) The evolved family in Family Business. Wilkinson, H (ed) Demos Collection, 15, pp. 151-7. London, Demos
Cronin, H and Curry, O (2000) Pity poor men: if Labour wants to save the family, they should focus on fathers, London Guardian, 5 February
Curry, O (2003) Evolutionary psychology: 'Fashionable ideology' or 'new foundation'? Human Nature Review, 3, 81-92
Curry, O (2003) Review of A J Field, Altruistically Inclined? The behavioral sciences, evolutionary theory, and the origins of reciprocity, Quarterly Review of Biology, 78 (1), 126-7
Curry, O (2003) Review of Bounded Rationality: the adaptive toolbox, edited by Gerd Gigerenzer and Reinhard Selten, Human Nature Review, 3 (14 March), 163-5
Curry, O, Cronin, H and Ashworth, J (eds) (1996) Matters of Life and Death: The world view from evolutionary psychology. Demos Quarterly, 10. London, Demos

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Daly M, Wilson M I (1996) Evolutionary psychology and marital conflict: The relevance of stepchildren (PDF) in D M Buss & N Malamuth, eds, Sex, Power, Conflict: Feminist and evolutionary perspectives. New York: Oxford University Press
Martin Daly & Margo Wilson (1998) The Truth about Cinderella, Darwinism Today
Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 1872
Richard Dawkins, Is Science a Religion? (1996 speech to American Humanist Association)
Gabriel Dover, Darwinian devolution, Times Higher Education Supplement 26 February 1999

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Julian Flanagan, Evolution’s funny turn, Financial Times 15 April 2005
Freese, J,  Meland, S (2002) Seven tenths incorrect: Heterogeneity and change in the waist-to-hip ratios of Playboy centerfold models and Miss America pageant winners, Journal of Sex Research, May

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Haig, D (1996) Placental hormones, genomic imprinting, and  maternal-fetal communication (PDF) Journal of Evolutionary Biology 9, 357-380
Haig, D (2004) Genomic imprinting and kinship: How good is the evidence? (PDF) Annual Review of Genetics 38, 553-585
Dave Hill, Back to Stone Age sex, London Observer 27 February 2000
Robert A Hinde, Conflicts of interest, Times Higher Education Supplement 10 November 1995
Lucy Hodges, The evolution revolution: The Darwin impresario, Times Higher Education Supplement 18 October 1996
Lucy Hodges, Out of their tiny minds, London Independent 23 January 1997
Lucy Hodges, The wrong sort of society, London Independent 13 March 1997
Lucy Hodges, Into the mature cycle, Times Higher Education Supplement 23 July 1999
Will Hutton, What comes after the gold rush? London Observer 16 June 1996

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Aisling Irwin, Bred in the bone? Times Higher Education Supplement 19 May 1995
Aisling Irwin, Facing up to emotion, Times Higher Education Supplement 21 July 1995

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Boris Johnson, Here stands the origin of speciesism, London Daily Telegraph 23 May 1998
Paul Johnson, An entertaining evening finding out how Professor Pinker's mind works, Spectator 31 January 1998
Paul Johnson, Shaping up for a new moral catastrophe in the 21st century, Spectator 17 October 1998
Judson, H F (2001) Talking about the genome (PDF) Nature 409, 769

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Keverne, E B (1999) Genomic imprinting, brain development and behaviour (PDF) EuroBrain 1, 2-4
Marek Kohn, Drive an Escort, not a Ferrari, and be happy, London Independent on Sunday, 16 June 1996
Marek Kohn,  Cinderella revisited, London Independent on Sunday, 24 November 1996
Marek Kohn, Views for the Left, London Independent on Sunday 24 May 1998
Robert Kunzig, Autism: What's sex got to do with it? Psychology Today Jan/Feb 2004

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Armand Marie Leroi, Sing, prance, ruffle, bellow, bristle and ooze, London Review of Books 17 September 1998

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John O McGinnis, Unnatural selection, National Review 19 April 1999
Kenan Malik, The Beagle sails back into fashion, New Statesman 6 December 1996
Kenan Malik, An expression of the facts, Independent on Sunday 1 February 1998
Kenan Malik, An annotated bibliography of nonsense, London Independent on Sunday 28 June 1998
Anna Maxted, The belle curve: Why all men love a waistline (allegedly), London Independent on Sunday 30 April 1995
John Maynard Smith (1998) Shaping Life: Genes, embryos and evolution, Darwinism Today
Steve Mithen, Explaining the early human mind, British Archaeology June 1996
Robin McKie, Great minds united in an ungodly trio, The Observer, 12 March 2006
Suzanne Moore, Natural deselection, London Independent 4 December 1996

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Nesse, R M (1991) What good is feeling bad? The evolutionary utility of psychic pain (PDF) The Sciences,  Nov/Dec
Nesse, R M (2005) Maladaptation and natural selection (PDF) Quarterly Review of Biology 80, 62-71
Nesse, R M, Williams, G C (1999) On Darwinian medicine (PDF) Life Science Research 3, 1-17

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Kam Patel, Jeux sans frontières, Times Higher Education Supplement  2 June 1995
Kam Patel, Whole in one, Times Higher Education Supplement 4 August 1995
Kam Patel, My family and other animals, Times Higher Education Supplement 25 February 2000
Nancy Pearcey, Singer in the rain [review of A Darwinian Left] First Things October 2000
Pinker, S (1998), Words and rules (PDF) Lingua, 106, 219-242

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Matt Ridley, Ignore my rhetoric, I'm only here for the sex, London Daily Telegraph 25 November 1996
Matt Ridley, Life is anything but a fairy tale for stepchildren, London Daily Telegraph 3 December 1996
Matt Ridley, Darwin on the mind, Prospect February 1998
W G Runciman, Darwinian soup, London Review of Books 10 June 1999
Who needs Darwin? (video): debate between W G Runciman and Anthony Giddens, LSE, 20 June 2001

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Tom Shakespeare, Social genetics - a polemical issue, Network (Newsletter of the British Sociological Association) September 1997
Peter Singer, Evolutionary workers' party, Times Higher Education Supplement 15 May 1998
Peter Singer (1998) A Darwinian Left: Politics, evolution and cooperation, Darwinism Today
Singh, D (2004) Mating strategies of young women: Role of physical attractiveness, Journal of Sex Research, February
Joan Smith, Should we live this way? London Independent 22 June 1997
Sperber, D (2000) An objection to the memetic approach to culture (in Robert Aunger, ed, Darwinizing Culture: The status of memetics as a science, Oxford University Press, 163-173)
Harriet Swain, The science police, Times Higher Education Supplement 10 July 1998
Maia Szalavitz, Eve psych, Feed 7 March 2000

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Jenny Teichman, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The New Criterion October 2000
Trivers, R (2000) The elements of a scientific theory of self-deception (PDF) Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 907, 114-131
Robert Trivers - An Edge Special Event
Colin Tudge, From each according to his genes, London Independent
on Sunday 7 July 1996
Colin Tudge, Charles Darwin: Back for the future, LSE Magazine Summer 1997
Colin Tudge, Relative danger, Natural History September 1997
Colin Tudge: review of Silver, Lee M, Remaking Eden, New Statesman 30 January 1998
Colin Tudge (1998) Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers: How agriculture really began, Darwinism Today
Colin Tudge, All this hard graft no longer makes sense, London Independent 20 October 1998
Colin Tudge, The idle shall inherit the earth, London Guardian 23 January 1999

Jon Turney, Life, the universe and everything, Financial Times 28 November 1998 

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Leigh Van Valen, How the left got Darwin wrong, Scientific American June 2000

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Natasha Walter, Roses are red, violets are blue. So what? London Independent on Sunday 14 February 1999
Webb R (2002) Natural-born monarchs in Monarchies. Bentley T and Wilsdon J (eds) Demos Collection, 17, pp. 83-9. London, Demos
Whiten, A (2001) The evolutionary roots of culture (PDF) The British Academy Review, July-December, 57-60
Richard Wilkinson, For richer, not for poorer, London Guardian 11 September 1996
Richard Wilkinson (2000) Mind the Gap: Hierarchies, health and human evolution, Darwinism Today
John Wilson, Your Darwin is too large, Christianity Today 25 May 2000

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