63. Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougallThis book is about a lot of things. It's non-fiction, and while it packs in a lot of facts, it really reads more like an adventure novel ( Read more... )

55. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human by Richard Wrangham
I was interested in this when it came out, and then I forgot about it, but then Zuk made reference to it in Paleofantasy, so I grabbed a copy ( Read more... )

46. Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells us About Sex, Diet and How We Live by Marlene ZukSick of scientific illiterates telling you that we're not "evolved" to live the way we do? This is the book for you ( Read more... )

55. Moral Origins: The Origins of Virtue, Altruism and Shame by Christopher Boehm

I bought this after reading a review in New Scientist. As the title suggests, it presents a theory for the evolutionary biology behind the origins of morals, largely through studying the cultural anthropology of egalitarian hunter gatherer societies whose way of ( Read more... )