Science Book Summaries - Page 3

Survival of the Friendliest

Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

Untrue

Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free

Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite

Evolution and the Modular Mind

How We Learn

The Surprising Truth About When, Where and Why It Happens

Who We Are and How We Got Here

Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness and Recovery

The Man Who Solved the Market

How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

The Compass of Pleasure

How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning and Gambling Feel So Good

The Talent Code

Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.

Time Travel

A History

The Selfish Gene

A landmark work in the field of biology and evolution

Hacking Darwin

Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

Extra Life

A Short History of Living Longer

Rewire Your Anxious Brain

How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

The Red Queen

Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Enlightenment Now

The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

The Blank Slate

The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Chaos

Making a New Science

The Epigenetics Revolution

How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance

A Brief History of Time

From the Big Bang to Black Holes

The Order of Time

Carlo Rovelli

The Order of Time

A trip through time with a leading theoretical physicist

This Is Your Brain on Music

Understanding a Human Obsession

America Before

The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization

Outgrowing God

A Beginner’s Guide

The Magic of Reality

How We Know What’s Really True

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Carlo Rovelli

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

A mind-bending introduction to modern physics

Flow

Elissa Stein and Susan Kim

Flow

The Cultural Story of Menstruation

Pandemic

Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond