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Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness, by Humphrey, N.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Jaynes, J.

The Darwin Archipelago: The Naturalist’s Career Beyond Origin of Species, by Jones, S.

Coming To Our Senses, by Kabat-Zinn, Jon

Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Kahneman, D.

Brainwashing: The Science Of Thought Control, by Kathleen Taylor

From Neurons to Self-Consciousness, by Korzeniewski, B.

Hiding in the mirror, by Krauss, L.M.

Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind, by Kurzban, Robert

The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics, by Lakoff, George

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, by Lane, Nick

Power, Sex, Suicide. Mitochondria and the meaning of life., by Lane, Nick

The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams and God, by Linden, David J.

What On Earth Evolved?  100 Species that Changed The World, by Lloyd, Christopher

Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, by Marcus, G.

Acquiring Genomes, by Margulis, L.

The “God” Part of the Brain, by Matthew Alper

What Evolution Is, by Mayr, Ernst

Quantum Evolution, by McFadden, John Joe

Brain & Belief: An exploration of the human soul, by McGraw, John J.

The Ego Tunnel, by Metzinger, T.

Why People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer

Obedience to authority, by Milgram, Stanley

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature, by Miller, G.

Adventures Among Ants, by Moffett, M.W.

The Scars of Evolution, by Morgan, Elaine

The Spiritual Doorway In the Brain, by Nelson, Kevin

Why We Get Sick, by Nesse, Randolphe M. & Williams, George C.

Why Red Doesn’t Sound Like a Bell, by O'Regan, K.

Evil Genes, by Oakley, Barbara

The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Pinker, S.

The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, by Pinker, Steven

The Botany of Desire, by Polan, Michael

A New Green History of the World, by Ponting, C.

The song of the dodo: island biogeography in an age of extinctions, by Quammen, David

The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human, by Ramachandran, V. S.

Phantoms in the Brain, by Ramachandran, V.S. and Blakeslee, S

Life of Earth, by Rice, S.A.

The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation, by Ridley, M.

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, by Ridley, M.

The Trouble with Testosterone: The Biology of the Human Predicament, by Robert Sapolsky

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, by Ryan, C.

The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year In An Unnatural World, by Safina, C.

The Dragons of Eden, by Sagan, C.

Broca’s Brain, by Sagan, C.

A Primate’s Memoir: A neuroscientist’s unconventional life among the baboons, by Sapolsky, R.

Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century, by Schoonover, C.

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, by Schulz, K.

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