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Evolutionary Psychology Books

Here is a list of books in no particular order for people whom are interested in reading more about Evolutionary Psychology (most sub-titles omitted to save space).

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1. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

2. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

3. Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene

4. The Pleasure Trap by Douglas Lysle and Allan Goldhamer.

5. Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett

6. The Anatomy of Desire by David Buss

7. Mating Intelligence edited by Glen Geher and Geoffery Miller 

8. How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

9. Awakened Ape by Jevan Pradas  

10. Cavemen with Smartphones by Richard Amador

11.Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene

12. The Moral Molicule by Paul J. Zak

13. The Moral Animal by Robert Wright 

14. Evolutionary Psychiatry by Anthony Stevens and John Price

15. Behave: the biology of humans at our best and works by Robert Sapolsky

16. Consciousnesses Explained by Daniel Dennett

17. Personality by Daniel Nettle

18. Sex Power and Conflict by David Buss and Neil M. Malamuth

19. Does Altruism Exist? by David Sloan Wilson

20. Unto Others by David Sloan Wilson

21. Spent: sex, evolution, and the secrets of consumerism by Geoffrey Miller 

22. The Mating Mind by Geoffery Miller

23. Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans and Oscar Zarate

24. The Happiness Hypothesis by Johnathan Hadt

25.A Mind of Her Own by Anne Campbell

26. The Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams

27. Our Inner Ape by Frans de Waal

28. Moral Markets by Paul J. Zak

29. The Architecture of the Mind by Peter Carruthers

30. Mismatch by Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson

31. The Extended Phenotype by Richard Dawkins

32. Nonzero: by Robert Wright

33.The evolution of God by Robert Wright

34. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan

35. The Maladapted Mind edited by Simon Baron-Cohen

36. Why You Are Who You Are by Mark Leary

37. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 

38. The Rational Animal by Douglas T. Kendrick & Vladas Griskevicius

40. The Murderer Next Door by David Buss

41. Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright

42. Why Zebra's Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky 

44. The Crucible of Consciousness by Zoltan Torey

45. Thinking Big by Robin Dunbar, Clive Gamble, and John Gowlett

46. Sex Murder and the Meaning of Life by Douglas T. Kenrick

47. Applied Evolutionary Psychology by Craig Roberts

48. The Expanding Circle by Peter Singer

49. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond

50. The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

51. Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore

52. Consilience by Edward O. Wilson

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