You can access electronic copies of assigned readings found on the UCSB Library's electronic reserves [ERes] by going to http://eres.library.ucsb.edu/
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Three copies of Donald E Brown’s 1991 Human Universals (McGraw-Hill ) are also on reserve and available for 2 hour checkout.

Most “further readings” are available through the UCSB library. If you have trouble obtaining any further readings contact the instructor for assistance.

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Tattersall, I. (2000) Paleoanthropology: the last half century. Evolutionary Anthropology 9(1):2-16

Cosmides, L. and Tooby, J. 1997. Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/primer.html

Geary, D.C., & Bjorklund, D.F. (2000). Evolutionary Developmental Psychology. Child Development, 71, 57-65.

Further Readings:
Brown, D. E. (1991) Human Universals. McGraw-Hill Chapters 2 “Conceptualizing, defining, and demonstrating universals” (pp39-53) & Chapter 4 “Explaining universals” (pp88; 99-117); Chapters 6+ 7

Brown, D. E. (2004) Human universals, human nature, and human culture. Daedalus 133(4):47-54

Pinker, S. (2002). Blank Slate: Modern Denial of Human Nature Penguin Books. pp.5-13, 30-41

Tooby, J. & Cosmides, L. (1990). On the universality of human nature and the uniqueness of the individual: The role of genetics and adaptation. Journal of Personality, 58, 17-67.

Emotions;
Theory of Mind

Goleman, D. (1981) The 7000 Faces of Dr. Ekman Psychology Today February, 43-49

Further Readings:
Brown, D. E. (1991) Human Universals. McGraw-Hill pp. 23-27 “Facial Expression”

Fessler, D.M.T. (2004) Shame in two cultures: Implications for evolutionary
approaches. Journal of Cognition and Culture 4(2):207-262.

Lutz, C. and White, G. (1986) The Anthropology of Emotions. Annual Review of Anthropology, 15: 405-436.

Nesse, R. (1999). The Evolution of Hope and Despair. Social Research 66,
429-469.

Darwin, Charles (1965). The expression of the emotions in man and animals. University of Chicago Press: Chicago

There You Go Sally

Princess Bride

Ambrose, S.H., (2001) Paleolithic technology and human evolution. Science. 291:1748-1753

Johnson-Frey, S.H. (2004) The neural bases of complex tool use in humans. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8(2):71-78

Further Readings:
van Schaik, C.P., Deaner, R. O. and Merrill, M. Y. (1998) The conditions for tool use in primates: implications for the evolution of material culture. Journal of Human Evolution 36:719-741

Johnson-Frey, S.H. (2004) The neural bases of complex tool use in humans. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8(2):71-78

Gorman, R.M. (2007) Evolving bigger brains through cooking: A q&a with Richard Wrangham. Scientific American Dec. 19

Wikipedia (2008) Control of fire by early humans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans

Boback, S.M., Cox, C.L., Ott, B.D., Carmody, R., Wrangham, R.W., and Secor, S.M. (2007) Cooking and grinding reduces the cost of meat digestion. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology.Part A 148:651-656

Wrangham, R. and Conklin-Brittain, N (2003) Cooking as a biological trait. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology.Part A 136:35-46

chimp spear
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/
player/animals/mammals-animals/apes/
chimp_spear.html

2001 space odyssey (clip)

Desmond Morris – The Human Animal: The Hunting Ape

Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer (1999) Mother nature: maternal instincts and how they shape the human species. Pp.381-418 Ballentine Books: New York

Kaplan, H., Hill, K., Lancaster, J., Hurtado, M. 2000. A theory of human life history evolution: Diet, intelligence, and longevity. Evolutionary Anthropology. 9(4):156-185

Further Readings:
Spiro, M.E. (1954) Is the family universal? American Anthropologist, 56 (October), 893-846

Wood, W. and Eagly, A.H. (2002) A cross-cultural analysis of the behavior of women and men: implications for the origins of sex differences. Psychological Bulletin 128(5, September): 699-727

Bird, Rebecca (1999) Cooperation and conflict: the behavioral ecology of the sexual division of labor. Evolutionary Anthropology 8(2):65-75

Marlowe, F. (2000) Paternal investment and the human mating system. Behavioural Processes 51:45-61

Hawkes, K. 1996. Foraging differences between men and women: behavioral ecology of the sexual division of labor. In Archaeology of Human Ancestry: Power, Sex, and Tradition. ed. By J. Steele and S. Shennan, pp.283-305. London: Routledge.

Hagen, E. H., Hames, R. B., Craig, N.M., Lauer, M.T., and Price, M.E. (2001) Parental investment and child health in a Yanomamo village suffering short-term food stress. J.biosoc. Sci. 33:503-528

Schon, R.A. (2007) Natural parenting – back to basics in infant care. Evolutionary Psychology 5(1):102-183

Alvergne, A., Faurie, C. and Raymond, M. (2007) Differential facial resemblance of young children to their parents: who do children look like more? Evolution and HumanBehavior 28:135-144.

Griese, D.L. & Kuhl, P.K. (1988) Maternal Speech to Infants in a Tonal Language: Support for Universal Prosodic Features in Motherese. Developmental Psychology 24(1):14-20

Gould, S.J. (1979) The neotenic evolution of Mickey Mouse. Natural History. May: 30-36

Soltis, J. (2004) The signal functions of early infant crying. Behavioral and Brain Science. 27:443-490

Gaulin, J.C.; McBurney, D.H.; and Brakeman-Wartell, S. 1997. Matrilineal biases in the investment of aunts and uncles: A consequence and measure of paternity uncertainty. Human Nature 8(2):139-151

McBurney, D.H.; Simon, J.; Gaulin, J.C.; Geliebter, A. 2001. Matrilineal biases in the investment of aunts and uncles: Replication in a population presumed to have high paternity certainty. Human Nature 13(3):391-402

Euler, H., and Weitzel, B. 1996. Discriminative grandparental solicitude as reproductive strategy. Human Nature 7:39-59

Pashos, A. 2000. Does paternal uncertainty explain discriminative gradparental solicitude? A cross-cultural study in Greece and Germany. Evolution and Human Behavior. 21:97-109

Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer (1999) Mother nature: maternal instincts and how they shape the human species. Ballentine Books: New York

Motherese

Cinderella (clip

Number and Color

Dehaene, S., Isard, V., Spelke, E., and Pica, P. (2008) Log or linear? Distinct intuitions of the number scale in Western and Amazonian indigene cultures. Science, 320:1217-1220

Brown, D. E. (1991) Human Universals. McGraw-Hill pp. 11-14 “Color Classification”

Further Readings:
Xu, F. & Spelke, E.S. (2000) Large number discrimination in 6 month old infants. Cognition 74:B1-B11

Gordon, P. (2004) Numerical cognition without words: evindence from Amazonia. Science 306: 496-499

Frank, M.C., Everett, D.L., Fedorenko, E., and Gibson, E. (2008) Number as cognitive technology: evidence from the Piraha language and cognition. Cognition, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.04.007

Dehaene, S., Isard, V., Spelke, E., and Pica, P. (2008) Log or linear? Distinct intuitions of the number scale in Western and Amazonian indigene cultures. Science, 320:1217-1220

Kay, P. & Regier, T. (2003) Resolving the question of color naming universals. PNAS 100(15):9085-9089

Jameson, K.A. (2005) Culture and Cognition: what is universal about the representation of color experience? The Journal of Cognition & Culture, 5(3-4): 293-347.

Ratliff, F. (1976) On the psychophysiological bases of universal color terms. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 120(5),October:311-330

Miller, Geoffrey (2000) The mating mind: how sexual choice shaped the evolution of the human nature. “Courtship in the Pleistocene” pp.179-222. Doubleday: New York

Further Readings:
Brown, D. E. (1991) Human Universals. McGraw-Hill pp. 14-20 “Samoan Adolescence”

Marlowe, F.W. (2003) The Mating System of Foragers in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. Cross-Cultural Research, 37(3): 282-306.

Low, B.S. (1990) Marriage Systems and Pathogen Stress in Human Societies. Amer.Zool. 30:325-339.

Sear, R. (2006) Height and reproductive success: How a Gambian population compares with the west. Evolution and Human Behavior 17:405-418.

Pound, N. 2002. Male interest in visual cues of sperm competition risk. Evolution and Human Behavior 23:443-466.

3rd gender http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender

Mustanski, B.S., M.L. Chivers, and J.M. Bailey, A critical review of recent
biological research on human sexual orientation. Annual Review of Sex
Research, 2002. 13: p. 89-140.

Kirkpatrick, R. C. (2000). The Evolution of Human Homosexual Behavior.
Current Anthropology 41, 385-413.

Goulet, Jean-Guy A. (1996). The 'berdache'/'two-spirit': a comparison of anthropological and native constructions of gendered identities among the Northern Athapaskans. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (December): 2(4):683-701

Nanda, Serena (1999). Neither man nor woman. Chapter 10: Cross-cultural perspective. Pp.128-149. Wadsworth Publishing Company: CA

Psychology: The Human Experience -Gender and Sexuality

Kenneally, C., Levitin, D., Lawton, G. , Mithen, S. (2008) Music special: roots of music New Scientist 2644 (23 Feb.):28-39

Further Readings:
Kenneally, C., Levitin, D., Lawton, G. , Mithen, S. (2008) Music special: roots of music New Scientist 2644 (23 Feb.):28-39

Harwood, D.L. (1976) Universals in music: a perspective from cognitive psychology. Ethnomusicology 20(3):521-533

Fitch, W. T. (2006) The biology and evolution of music: a comparative perspective. Cognition 100:173-215

Cross, I. (2001) Music, cognition, culture, and evolution. Annals New York Academy of Sciences. 28-42

McDermott, J. and Hauser, M. (2005) The origins of music: innatemess, uniqueness, and evolution. Music Perception 23(1):29-59

Peretz, I. and Zatorre, R.J. (2005) Brain organization for music processing. Annu. Rev. Psychol. 56:89-114

Sethares, W.A. (2005) Tuning, timbre, spectrum, scale. Springer: London

Mithen, Steve. 1999 The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science.

Hatcher, Evelyn Payne 1999 Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art Greenwood Publishing Group: Westport, CT

Miller, Geoffrey (2000) The mating mind: how sexual choice shaped the evolution of the human nature. “Arts of Seduction” pp.258-291. Doubleday: New York

MS13 clip – complex signs

sound clips:
Example III charango and finding beats
http://www.mus.cam.ac.uk/~cross/BJE/

non-western scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Image:Mevlevi_music.ogg

Sethares CDs/ online media
http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/
html/soundexamples.html

Wrangham, R.W. and Wilson, M.L. (2004) Collective violence: comparisons between youths and chimpanzees. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1036:233-256

Further Readings:
Wrangham, R.W. (1999) The evolution of coalitionary killing. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 42: p. 1-30.

Wilson, M.L. and Wrangham, R.W. (2003) Intergroup relations in chimpanzees. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 32:363-392

Wrangham, R.W. and Peterson, D. (1996) Demonic Males: Apes and origins of human violence. Houghton Mifflin: Boston.

Hess, N. & Hagen, E. (2006). Sex differences in indirect aggression: psychological evidence from young adults . Evolution and Human Behavior 27(3):231-245

Chagnon, N. (1997) Yanomamo. Wadsworth Publishing

Silent Coordination 19:00

Chimp attack
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/
article/suppl/10.1146/
annurev.anthro.32.061002.120046?
file=anthro.32.363.attack.mov

Sudden Impact
(revenge clip)

Desmond Morris – The Human Animal: The Human Zoo

**(class cancelled Thursday Nov. 20)

Lieberman et al. (2007). The architecture of human kin
detection. Nature 445(15):727-731

Further Readings:
Freud, S. (1918) Totem and Taboo: resemblances betweent he psychic lives of savages and neurotics. Moffat, Yard, and Company: NY pp.1-29

Westermarck, E. (1925) The history of human marriage. Vol.II, fifth edition. Pp.190-237 Macmillan and Company: London

Malinowski, B. (1927) Sex and Repression in Savage Society. Pp.74-82; 243-252 Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.: London

Levi-Strauss, Claude (1969). The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Chapters I and II. Beacon Press: Boston, MA

Hopkins, Keith (1980). Brother-Sister Marriage in Roman Egypt. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 22 (3), 303-354.

Fessler, D.M.T. and Navarrete, C.D. (2004) Third-party attitudes toward sibling incest: Evidence for Westermarck’s Hypotheses. Evolution and Human Behavior 25(5):277-294.

Boster, J. and D’Andrade, R. (1989) Natural and human sources of cross-cultural agreement in ornithological classification. American Anthropologist 91(1):132-142

Further Readings:
Barrett, H.C. (2004) Descent versus design in Shuar children’s reasoning about animals. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 4.1:25-50

Barrett, H. C. & Behne, T. (2005). Children’s understanding of death as the cessation of agency: A test using sleep versus death. Cognition 96:93-108

Boster, J., Berlin, B., and O”Neill, J. (1986) The correspondence of Jivaroan to scientific ornithology. American Anthropologist 88(3):569-583

Boster, J. (1987) Agreement between biological classification systems is not dependent on cultural transmission. American Anthropologist 89(4):914-920

Boster, J., and Johnson, J.C. (1989) Form or function: a comparison of expert and novice judgements of similarity among fish. American Anthropologist 91(4)866-889

Betzig, L. (1993). Sex, succession, and stratification in the first six civilizations: how powerful men reproduced, passed power on to their sons, and used power to defend their wealth, women and children. In Social Stratification and Socioeconomic Inequality. Lee Ellis (Ed.) Praeger: Westport, CT

Further Readings:
Boehm, C. (1999). Hierachy in the forest: the evolution of egalitarian behavior. Harvard University Press: Cambridge

Kalma, A (1991). Hierarchisation and dominance assessment at first glance. European Journal of Social Psychology 21:165-181

Whiting, J. (1994) Culture and human development: The selected papers of John Whiting. Eleanor Hollenberg Chasdi, Editor. Cambridge University Press: Mass.

Henrich, J. & Gil-White, F. (2001) The evolution of prestige: freely conferred status as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission. Evolution and Human Behavior, 22:165-196.

Sapolsky, R. M. (1990). Stress in the Wild. Scientific American 262(1):116-123.

Service, E.R. (1971). Primitive social organization: an evolutionary perspective. Random House: New York

Boone, J. (1992) Competition, conflict, and development of social hierarchies. In E.A. Smith, & B. Winterhalder (Eds.) Evolutionary ecology and human behavior. (pp.301-337). Aldine de Gruyter: New York

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