Endnotes: Chapter 1
Recommended books
Bloom, P. (2010). How Pleasure Works. New York, Norton Press.
Coyne, J. A. (2009). Why Evolution is True. New York, Viking Press.
French, P. (2001). The Virtues of Vengeance. University of Kansas Press.
Goldhagen, D.J. (2009). Worse than War. New York, Public Affairs.
Kekes, J. (2005) The Roots of Evil. Ithaca, Cornell University Press.
Kiernan, B. (2007). Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. New Haven, Yale University Press.
McCullough, M.E. (2008). Beyond Revenge. John Wiley & Sons.
Pinker, S. (2011) The Better Angels of Our Nature. New York, Viking Press
Wrangham, R.W., & Peterson, D. (1996). Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. Boston, Houghton-Mifflin.
Notes:
* Smarter and more painful mice: Wei, F., Wang, G.-D., Kerchner, G. A., Kim, S. J., Xu, H.-M., Chen, Z.-F., & Zhuo, M. (2001). Genetic enhancement of inflammatory pain by forebrain NR2B overexpression. Nature, 4,2; Tang, Y.-P., Shimizu, E., Dube, G. R., Rampon, C., Kerchner, G. A., Zhuo, M., & Tsien, J. Z. (1999). Genetic enhancement of learning and memory in mice. Nature, 401: 63-69.
* Insects that play leaf: Wedmann, S., Bradler, S. & Rust, J. (2007). The first fossil leaf insect: 47 million years of specialized cryptic morphology and behavior., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(2): 565-569.
* Evolving tameness: Trut, L. N. (1999). Early canid domestication: the farm-fox experiment. American Scientist, 87, 160-169; Hare, B., Plyusnina, I, Ignacio, N., Schepina, O., Stepika, A., Wrangham, R. W., & Trut, L. N. (2005). Social cognitive evolution in captive foxes is a correlated by-product of experimental domestication. Current Biology, 15(3), 226-230; Udell, M., Dorey, N., & Wynne, C. (2009). What did domestication do to dogs? A new account of dogs' sensitivity to human actions Biological Reviews, 85(2): 327-345; Galibert, F., Quignon, P., Hitte, C., & Andre, C. (2011). Toward understanding dog evolutionary and domestication history., Current Reviews in Biology 334(3), 190-196; Careau,V., Réale, D., Humphries, M.M., & Thomas, D.W. (2010). The pace of life under artificial selection: personality, energy expenditure, and longevity are correlated in domestic dogs. American Naturalist 175(6), 753-758.
* What’s religion for? Boyer, P. (2001). Religion explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought. New York, Basic Books; Wilson, D.S. (2002). Darwin's Cathedral. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Sosis, R., & Bressler, E.R. (2003). Cooperation and commune longevity: a test of the costly signaling theory of religion. Cross-cultural Research, 37(2), 211-239; Norenzayan, A, & Shariff, A. F. (2008). The origin and evolution of religious prosociality. Science, 322(5898),
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