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Essays,Theories, and Book Reviews
Concerning Evolutionary Psychology
 

 

Darwin's Sexual Selection Flaw: Opening the Door to Evolutionary Feminism's Foundation.
Essay by William A. Spriggs
July 4th, 2009

Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love.
By Dr. Helen Fisher

Henry Holt and Company, 2004
Book review by William A. Spriggs, June 14, 2009

The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing the World
by Helen Fisher, Ph.d.
Random House: New York, 1999

Book Review by William A. Spriggs
October 23, 2008

Anatomy of Love: The Mysteries of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray.
By Helen Fisher, Ph.D.
Fawcett Columbine, New York, 1992
Book Review by William A. Spriggs
Origin: July 4th, 2008

The Sex Contract: The Evolution of Human Behavior
By Helen E. Fisher
William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York, 1982
Book Review by William A. Spriggs
Origin: April 24, 2008

Morphing Into Matriarchy: Inching Towards Peace
By
William A. Spriggs
Origin: March 29th, 2008
Women, Power, and the Biology of Peac
By
Judith L. Hand, Ph.D.
Book review by William A. Spriggs, January 28th, 2008
The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War
by David Livingstone Smith
Book review by William A. Spriggs, Dec. 27, 2007.

Posse Comitatus 2.0 Part two of "Rethinking Posse Comitatus in an Era of Muslim Suicide Bombers..."
Essay by William A. Spriggs
Origin: October 28, 2007
Retinking Posse Comitatus in an Era of Muslim Suicide Bombers and the coming hoards of bachelor males from India and China: Are more and more signs pointing to the lack of marriage opportunities for these surplus males as fodder for future wars and a threat to our national security? Part I
Essay by William A. Spriggs
Origin: August 23, 2007
Menstrual Odors, Dirty Diapers, and the Male Dominated Religious Quest for Purity:
Giving Birth to Misogyny, Racial, and Ethnic Discriminations Originating in the Human Biological Emotion of Disgust.
Essay by William A. Spriggs

Origin: June 20th, 2007
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
Latest book review by William A. Spriggs
Origin: May 2007
Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population
By Valerie M. Hudson & Andrea M. den Boer
Latest book review by William A. Spriggs
Origin: October 2006
OUR INNER APE, by Frans de Waal
Latest book review by William A. Spriggs

Origin: September 2006
Movie Lecture Script: Conservative Moral Values
Origin: May 2005, Updated: July 2006
Seven Ideas for Seven Days: Making Democrats Electable. My first one hour film. It was filmed in March, 2006 and sent out to 130 active poltical pundints. The above link is the script for the film which was mailed out May 1, 2006.
Origin: March 2006, Mailed out May 2006
Book review: The Wimp Factor: Gender gaps, holy wars, &the politics of anxious masculinity
By Stephen J. Ducat
Review by William A. Spriggs,
Origin: October 28, 2004
Book Review: The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right
by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider
Review by William A. Spriggs,
Origin:
October 3, 2004
Book Review:
The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Mestruation
By Karen Houppert
Review by William A. Spriggs
Origin: August 22, 2004
Book Review:The Scent of Diversity: Is the cure for discrimination in all forms as close as your nose?
Origin: July 28, 2004
Book Review: A Mind of Her Own: Evolutionary Psychology of Women
by Ann Campbell
Review by William A. Spriggs

Origin: July 22, 2004
Book Review: A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England
by John Tosh
Yale University Press, 1999

Origin: March 19, 2004
Book Review: Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
By Janet Browne.
Want to know what Darwin's stand on birth control was? find out.
Origin: Feb. 1, 2004
The Men From MARs: Correctly Identifying NASCAR Dads, Blue-collar workers, Overseers, etc., as Beta Males as Seen From the Evolutionary Perspective and Their Importance in American Politics from the 1970s to Present.
Origin: August 10, 2003
U.S. House Resolution 808, It's time to get aggressive for peace.
Origin: April 2003
Cheryl and Leona
An Almost Typical American Couple:
A Short Piece That Understands That Political Power is Used as an Instrument of Subspecies Control
in the Quise of "Morality."
Origin: February, 2003
HBES2002: A PERSONAL VIEW  My personal view of attending the Human Behavior and Evolution Society's 14th annual meeting.
Origin: June, 2002.
Master and Slave: the ultimate dehumanization dynamic of Homo sapiens.  An evolutionary perspective on in-group - out-group bias through the use of the narrative to isolate and identify such behavior.  The novel: The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Craft. A fugitive Slave Recently Escaped From North Carolina, circa 1852.
Origin: June 16, 2002

Human Penises (and Human Breasts): Why are they so large in comparison to our primate cousins?
Origin: March 30, 2002
The Resource Differential Intolerance Ratio Theory:
The gap between the very rich and the poor; do we see the evolutionary connection?

Origin: January 5, 2002
Reparations anyone? A Reply to a Denver Post Editorial of September 18, 2001
concerning African slave reparations.

Origin: November 24, 2001, updated: September, 18th 2002
Sex: The Fountainhead of Civilization?
Origin: July 2001

Evolutionary Psychology and the Origins of Racism, Prejudice, Bigotry, and Discrimination: an updated view.
Origin: July 30, 2001; updated Sept. 19., 2001
(Personal note: This essay is a re-write of my August 1995 essay titled: Evolutionary Psychology and the Origins of Bigotry and Prejudice: Perhaps, Evolutionary Psychology Unravels the Mystery. It has been so transformed that it requires a separate essay:
Origin Aug. 1995, updated June 1998
Please note the transformation and growth from the original).
Road Rage and Chat Rooms: Behaviors from the comfort zones
Origin: Aug. 28, 2000
The Mafias: An Evolutionary Perspective
Origin: June 10, 2000
The American and German Holocausts: Common Behavioral Threads as Seen From the Evolutionary Perspective. 
Origin: May 19, 2000
Politics 2000: The School Voucher Systems: Territorial Considerations in the Resource Alignment Theories.
Origin: August 5, 1999
Politics2000: America's Criminal Justice System and the Resource Alignments: An Evolutionary Perspective.©

Origin: July 28, 1999
Politics2000: The Origin of the Angry White Male: The Jock/Conservative Connection; Falling Sperm Counts: An Evolutionary Perspective.©
Origin: July 12, 1999
Evolutionary Psychology: The Overview From Our Past to the Future. ©
Origin: Oct. 96 Updated: Sept. 7, 98
Evolutionary Psychology and the Male Gender: An Open Letter to My Gender©
Origin: May 5, 97 Updated: June 14, 98
Evolutionary Psychology & the Male "Criminal" Mind © A theory derived from Evolutionary Psychology.  Evolutionary psychology debunks the stereotypical image of our inner-city youths as genetically predisposed to commit crimes.   Buffalo droppings.  One of my favorites.
Origin: July 95 Updated: Jan. 98
Evolutionary Psychology: A Possible Solution to the Taiwan Problem from an Evolutionary Perspective?: An Open Letter to China's Civilian and Military Leaders. ©
Origin: July 28, 98 Updated: April 12, 99
Suicide What is the evolutionary explanation why someone would take themselves out of the gene pool before they
reproduced?
Origin: Nov. 1999
The Littleton Shootings: The Evolutionary Perspective
An interesting look back at the worst school shooting (at that time) one month after the incident.
Origin: May 1999

Hate Crimes Generally, the theory is simple. Humans who identify closely with dominate groups, yet who are rejected by the
same group, abuse and humiliate lower subordinates in order to "make themselves feel superior."
Origin: May, 1999
Alpha Male Profile In politics, is image of the male politician more important than the substance?
Origin: March 1999, updated, Jan. 2000.
Territorial Signposts Do you believe that only animals have "turf?" Are humans "territorial" like animals?
You bet there are.
Origins: cira, 2001

Homosexuality The truth is still out there. Not only have we not found out why it exsists, but why it still persists.
Altruism, Eugenics, and Natural Selection: The View As We Approach the Millennium. ©

Origin: June 96, Updated: Oct. 96
Evolutionary Psychology and the Origins of Bigotry and Prejudice: Perhaps, evolutionary psychology unravels the mystery. ©
Origin: Aug. 95, Updated: June 14, 98
Evolutionary Psychology and the Origins of Eugenics: © Reflections about group selection and rejection.  How our animal ancestors developed the concept of "winners" and "losers."  The introduction of a possible explanation to human and animal "sacrifices."
Origin: June 94, Updated: April 97
Evolutionary Psychology, Capitalism, and Communism: An Introduction to the Resource Differential Tolerance Ratio Theory. ©
Origin: Oct. 19, 97, Updated: Nov. 2 97
Evolutionary Psychology and Natural Rejection.© Thoughts on rejection in the mating process.  Why we get so blue when no one flirts back.
Origin: June 95, Updated: May 98
Evolutionary Psychology and the Spellchecker: Fear Not; We Will Survive. ©
Origin: Dec. 95, Updated: April 97
Evolutionary Psychology and the Pedophile: In Defense of Evolutionary Psychology.©
Origin: Nov. 95, Updated: Sept. 98
Evolutionary Psychology and Hollywood, Part 1: The Brain, the Big Screen, and the Origin of Gossip. ©
Origin: Mar. 97, Updated: Jul. 97
An Evolutionary Christmas Tale: Musing about DNA and Ebenezer Scrooge©
Origin: Dec. 10, 1997 Updated: Nov. 2001 (A yearly renewal)

Evolutionary Psychology and Hollywood, Part II: The Creation of the Celebrity, and the Fascination of the Morbid
Origin: March 98
Evolutionary Psychology and the Recipe for an Artificial Brain: Add One Cup of Gray Matter and Mix. ©
Origin: Oct. 96
100 Questions to Answer Before We Build An Aritficial Brain
Circuits and microgates that create pluses and zeros are not the only things we need before we try to duplicate the human mind.
Origin: December 1995
Gender Differences in the DSM-IV: An Observation from an Evolutionary Perspective©
Origin: Feb. 98, Updated: Oct. 98
Ebonics
African-American street language merely reflects the adaptation to local environments.
Origin: Feb. 1997
, updated Jan. 2000
Evolutionary Psychology and the Apple: If natural selection states that only the best survive to become number one, why isn't Apple top dog in the computer world? ©
Origin: Jun. 96, Updated: Jul. 98

An Evolutionary Christmas Tale: Musing about DNA and Ebenezer Scrooge©
Origin: Dec. 10, 1997 Updated: Nov. 2004 (A yearly renewal)

The Movie Star and Brown Sugar. © A lighthearted muse from the evolutionary psychology front.
Origin: Aug. 95

Man in the Mist: The Evolutionary Musings of a Blue-Collar Worker© In this, his first book, Mr. Spriggs answers the evolutionist question: "If man evolved from the apes, why are there still monkeys in the jungle?" He also attempts to answer other interesting points concerning our ancestral early beginnings, sexual development, and future evolutionary questions; including an interesting look at prostitution from an evolutionary perspective. The book is free and is electronically divided for easy print-out.   Click here for this version:Man in the Mist: The Evolutionary Musings of a Blue-Collar Worker

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