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As mentioned in the other thread, Sterling's Myths of Gender focuses more on biology (though it's getting a little bit dated). Also, there's Rebecca Jordan-Young's Brainstorm, which focuses specifically on the hormonal "brain organization theory." It's a bit dry because of that, but the science is good.

Also, sorry about Pinker. :P But he does have lots of other good stuff, I just wouldn't put much stock in what he says on this issue.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)18:52, 17 November 2011

I don't mind dry. I've spent my life reading academic studies of religious texts, Language analysis, etc. My only worry is if the sicence / biology gets too hard.

Pink mowse.pngGodotSome would use a tautology to describe it ("The way things are done around here is the wa19:05, 17 November 2011

Most of the bio is fairly basic stuff in either one, though the neuroscience gets pretty technical, but that's what you're interested in anyway.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)19:12, 17 November 2011

I've been revisiting Buller's Adapting Minds recently, which has some chapters criticizing alleged "evolved" sex differences. The chapters can stand on their own, but the whole thing is worth reading as it's the most informed critique of evolutionary psychology I've found yet (I'm a bit more "pro-EP" than Buller, but I think most of his criticism is spot on). In any case, it's far more accurate than the picture painted by pop evo psych.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)08:07, 9 December 2011

More work! I've just been digging up a lot of stuff recently for this "cognition and culture" project I've been working on for a while and it seems like stuff you would like. Colin Renfrew is apparently a big shot in "cognitive archaeology," one of his anthologies some interesting stuff on religion. Dahlberg also has a good debunking of Flintstones-esque pop anthropology (though that first chapter is a bit sketchy IMO).

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:29, 13 December 2011

Nice! I can't wait to read this.

Pink mowse.pngGodotI live in the Infinite monkey cage05:45, 13 December 2011

Oh, I'm sure I'll have another entire bookshelf of recommendations by the time I'm done with this thing. It's already fucking gargantuan.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:53, 13 December 2011

Is this a dissertation? A term project? or just a personal project?

Pink mowse.pngGodotI live in the Infinite monkey cage14:32, 13 December 2011

Term project, though it ended up being a bit more sweeping in scope than I had originally planned.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)16:58, 13 December 2011

Yeah, then you learn the art of "How can i make this one term project work for all 5 of my classes".  :-)

When you are in classes with similar scopes, some profs don't really mind, especially if you are totally "into" the one paper.

Pink mowse.pngGodotI live in the Infinite monkey cage17:31, 13 December 2011

Yeah, I feel like it would be pretty easy to just swap in relevant case studies while leaving the theoretical parts untouched for another course. Also, found some more for ya.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)18:10, 13 December 2011

Say when.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)04:39, 14 December 2011

I just learned that Tanya is a work of Hasidic philo. huh. the things you learn when you do the wrong search in google.

Pink mowse.pngGodotI live in the Infinite monkey cage04:44, 14 December 2011

Wrong searches have made me want to un-learn some things.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)04:49, 14 December 2011

Luckily, I've never found anything too bothersome. I am really unable to see dead things, especially humans. I try to be very careful when googling some things like middle eastern news. But so far, I've lucked out.

No ugly naked people, strange sexual encounters, etc...

Pink mowse.pngGodotI live in the Infinite monkey cage05:41, 14 December 2011

I've learned not to click links some people send me.

Anyway, interesting stuff on the "sapient paradox", much of which is admittedly speculative.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)21:58, 14 December 2011
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Not homework this time so much as an evolutionary turd to drop in your punchbowl. Couldn't find any decent snark, so this'll have to do.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:24, 20 December 2011

ok, i have to vent. 1) apparently, i am not a woman, cause i do not shop, hate to shop, do not spend time "shopping", though my male husband does. 2) the most recent anthro studies are suggesting that men and women hunted, men and women gathered. women cared for the kids, but mostly cause they had the serving fountains right on their bodies. men were able to to larger weight lifting, but this "division" of labor is probably mostly just in the man's mind. On the other hand, we know that many modern tribal societies do have a slightly larger division of labor than i'm talking, but not as extreme as to make us evolve to be "hunters" and "gatherers". sighs. 3) CULTURE, CULTURE, CULTURE.... far more important in "habbits" than biology, i suspect.

Pink mowse.pngGodotI live in the Infinite monkey cage00:31, 20 December 2011

Check Dahlberg -- they are not recent anthro studies but from the 1960s. Wilmaaaaa!!!

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)00:51, 20 December 2011
 

Something more sane this time.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)22:09, 20 December 2011

But humans are special snowflakes, right? Think again! More from Carl Zimmer.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)18:41, 26 December 2011

heh. :-) next thing we will find is that chimps think the world is 1,0000 years old, too.

Pink mowse.pngGodotI live in the Infinite monkey cage18:56, 26 December 2011