Selected Topics - References on evolution and genetics

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Bibliography - Evolution and Genetics

Barkun, M. (1968) Law without sanctions. Order in primitive societies and the world community. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.

Bateson, G. (1972) Steps to an ecology of mind. Ballantine Books, originally published 1972, New York

Bateson, G. (1988) Mind and nature. A necessary unit. Bantam Books, originally published 1979, New York

Blakemore, C. and Greenfield, S. (eds.) (1987) Mindwaves. Blackwell, Oxford

Buckminster Fuller, R. (1992) Cosmography. A posthumous scenario for the future of humanity. Macmillan, New York

Budiansky, S. (1992) The covenant of the wild. Why animals chose domestication. Morrow and Company, New York

Chargaff, E. (1978) Heraclitean fire. Sketchs from a life before nature. Rockefeller University Press, New York

Churchland, P. (1988) Matter and consciousness. Bradford Books, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.

Crick, F. (1988) What mad pursuit. A personal view of scientific discovery. Basic Books, New York

Darwin, C. (1985) The origin of species by means of natural selection or The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Penguin, Harmondsworth

Dawkins, R. (1988) The blind watchmaker. Penguin, Harmondsworth

Denoubourg, J.-L. and Goss, S. (1989) Collective patterns and decision-making. Ethology, Ecology, and Evolution, 1, 295-311

Denton, D. (1993) The pinnacle of life. Consciousness and self-awareness in humans and animals. Allen and Unwin, St. Leonards

Diamond, J. (1992) The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee. Vintage, London

Ewald, P.W. (1993) Evolution of infectious disease. Oxford University Press, Oxford

Fraser, J.T. (1982) The genesis and evolution of time. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst

Georgopoulos, A.P., Taira, M. and Lukashin, A. (1993) Cognitive neurophysiology of the motor cortex. Science, 260, 5104, 47-52

Glass, A. (ed.) (1986) Individual differences in hemispheric specialization. Plenum, New York

Goldberg, D. (1990) Genetic algorithms in search, optimization and machine learning. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.

Goodall, J. (1988) In the shadow of man. Revised edition. Houghton Mifflin, Boston

Gould, S.J. (1990) Time's arrow, time's cycle. Myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time. Penguin Books, London

Gould, S.J. (1991) Bully for Brontosaurus. Reflections in natural history. W.W. Norton, New York

Gould, S.J. (1993) Eight little piggies. Reflections in natural history. Norton, New York

Hafner, K. and Markoff, J. (1991) Cyberpunk. Simon & Schuster, New York

Hall, S.S. (1987) Invisible frontiers. The race to sequence a human gene. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York

Hookway, C. (ed.) (1985) Minds, machines, and evolution. Cambridge University Press, New York

Humphrey, N. (1992) A history of the mind. Chatto & Windus, London

Jackendoff, R. (1994) Patterns in the mind. Language and human nature. Basic Books, New York

Johnson-Laird, P.N. (1988) The computer and the mind. Fontana, London

Kagan, J. (1994) Galen's prophecy. Temperament in human nature. Basic Books, New York

Kauffman, S. (1993) The origins of order. Self-organization and selection in evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford

Kingdon, J. (1993) Self-made man: And his undoing. Simon & Schuster, New York

Kingdon, J. (1993) Self-made man. Human evolution from Eden to extinction. Wiley, New York

Langton, C.G., Taylor, C., Farmer, J.D. and Rasmussen, S. (eds.) (1992) Artificial life II. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. Vol. 10. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.

Levy, S. (1992) Artificial life. The quest for a new creation. Pantheon, New York

Lewontin, R.C., Rose, S. and Kamin, L.J. (1984) Not in our genes. Biology, ideology and human nature. Pantheon, New York

MacNeish, R.S. (1992) The origins of agriculture and settled life. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman

Mazlish, B. (1993) The fourth discontinuity. The co-evolution of humans and machines. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

McGrew, W.C. (1992) Chimpanzee material culture. Implications for human evolution. Cambridge University Press, New York

McKenna, T. (1993) Food of the gods. The search for the original tree of knowledge. A radical history of plants, drugs, and human evolution. Bantam Books, New York

McKinney, M.L. (1993) Evolution of life. Processes, patterns, and prospects. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

Morris, D. (1991) The animal contract. Sharing the planet. Warner Books, New York

Morse, S.S. (ed.) (1993) Emerging viruses. Oxford University Press, New York

Nitecki, M.H. and Nitecki, D.V. (eds.) (1993) Evolutionary ethics. State University of New York Press, Albany

Oelschlaeger, M. (1993) The idea of wilderness. From prehistory to the age of ecology. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

Olshansky, S.J., Carnes, B.A. and Cassel, C.K. (1993) The aging of the human species. Scientific American, 268, 4, 18-24

Partridge, L. and Barton, N.H. (1993) Optimality, mutation and the evolution of ageing. Nature, 362, 6418, 305-311

Penrose, R. (1989) The emperor's new mind. Oxford University Press, Oxford

Regis, E. (1990) Great mambo chicken and the transhuman condition. Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.

Rifkin, J. (1983) Algeny. Viking, New York

Rossotti, H. (1993) Fire. Oxford University Press, Oxford

Russell, P. (1992) The white hole in time. Our future evolution and the meaning of now. Harper, San Francisco

Shapiro, R. (1992) The human blueprint. The race to unlock the secrets of our genetic code. Bantam Books, New York

Shepard, P. (1982) Nature and madness. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco

Simons, G. (1992) Robots. The quest for living machines. Cassell, London

Stein, B.E. and Meredith, M.A. (1993) The merging of the senses. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

Tallis, R. (1991) The explicit animal. A defence of human consciousness. Macmillan, London

Varela, F.J., Thompson, E. and Rosch, E. (1991) The embodied mind. Cognitive science and human experience. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Watson, J.D. (1969) The Double Helix. A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. Penguin, Harmondsworth

Weinberg, S. (1992) Dreams of a final theory. The search for the fundamental laws of nature. Pantheon, New York

Whiten, A. (ed.) (1990) Natural theories of mind. Evolution, development and simulation of everyday mindreading. Basil Blackwell, Oxford

Wilson, E.O. (1975) Sociobiology. The new synthesis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Wingerson, L. (1990) Mapping our genes. Dutton, New York

Woodhead, A.D. and Barnhart, B.J. (eds.) (1988) Biotechnology and the human genome. Plenum, New Yo

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