Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind

8 best books like Darwin's Unfinished Symphony: How Culture Made the Human Mind (Kevin N. Laland): Shards of Honour, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes, Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Preserving the Japanese Way: Traditions of Salting, Fermenting, and Pickling for the Modern Kitchen

Shards of Honour

Author	Lois McMaster Bujold
ISBN	0743468422

An all-time SF favorite! Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:

Shards of Honor (often packaged with Barrayar and sold as Cordelia's Honor) is one of those SF space opera books that I love beyond reason and pull off my bookshelf every few years to reread, contentedly immersing myself...

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Author	Robert M. Sapolsky
ISBN	1594205078

Why do we do the things we do?
More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful...

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Author	Steven Pinker
ISBN	0525427570

If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.

Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress...

The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

Author	Charles C. Mann
ISBN	0449806383

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493--an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first...

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

Author	Adam Rutherford
ISBN	0297609378

This is a story about you.

It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births,...

Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources

Author	M. Kat Anderson
ISBN	0520248511

John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple...

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

Author	Robert Wright
ISBN	1508235406

From one of America’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.

Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed...

Preserving the Japanese Way: Traditions of Salting, Fermenting, and Pickling for the Modern Kitchen

Author	Nancy Singleton Hachisu
ISBN	1449450881

Preserving the Japanese Way, nominated for a 2016 James Beard Award in the International Cookbook category, introduces Japanese methods of salting, pickling, and fermenting that are approachable and easy to integrate into a Western cooking repertoire. Documentary-quality photo essays reveal...