From: David McFadzean (david@lucifer.com)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 13:02:08 MDT
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From: "sergio alonso" <Sergio.Alonso@Sun.COM>
To: <david@lucifer.com>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: Book List
> David,
>
> I found your web site completely by chance while I was searching
> the web looking for some material on Douglas Hofstadter.
>
> I enjoyed it very much as I found it beautiful and asolutely
> original.
> I'm a frequent visitor of rationalism, atheism and freethinking web
> sites, but yours is, by far, the best one I ever seen.
>
> I was browsing the book list and I think I have a couple of titles
> that
> that may be a good contribution to that list:
>
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> Evolutionary Psychology:
>
> Geoffrey Miller, The Mating Mind
> - How Sexual Choice Shaped The Evolution of Human Nature-
> Anchor Books, 2001
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>
> Virions will find it interesting because this is a book on the
> second (but
> less famous) evolution machanism proposed by Darwin: sexual
> selection.
>
> The book has an explanation for several distinctive and 'only human'
>
> behaviors such as morality, kindness, altruism, storytelling, arts
> (poetry,
> music, dance, etc.), sports, humor, and even religion; on how they
> evolved, and how they were evolutionary used as a way of displaying
> fitness since the ealy hominids until the present.
>
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> I don't know what category this book should go into:
>
> Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things
> -Pseudoscience, Superstition And Other Confusions Of Our Time -
> W.H. Freeman and Company, 1997
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>
> Virions would like this one because it is full of examples on what
> modern myths that result absolutely weird when they are skeptically
> elaborated.
> Chapters on abductions, Creationism, pseudohistory and eternity will
>
> give the Virions a lot of good resources and references to
> understand
> the very human mechanism of irrationality.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Sergio Alonso
>
>
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