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For the first time the history of the psychological and psychiatric evaluation of astronaut and cosmonaut candidates is detailed. This book, however, documents how NASA underutilized, downplayed, then ultimately ignored psychiatric and psychological characteristics in selecting astronauts, until very recently.

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Beckstrom explores how discoveries in evolutionary science can help people achieve, but not establish, social goals. Aid-giving behavior common to human populations is established as a key factor that is fundamental to an understanding of its flip side involving abuse and neglect.

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Somit and Peterson seek to explain two apparently contradictory yet well-established political phenomena: First, throughout human history, the vast majority of political societies have been authoritarian.

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Richard Lynn argues that the condemnation of eugenics in the 20th century went too far and offers a reassessment. He argues that the objectives of eugenics are desirable and achievable by human biotechnology, cloning, and embryo selection, rather than controling natural reproduction.

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Wim van der Steen charts conceptual foundations of evolutionary biology and, on the basis of this, he evaluates applications of evolutionary theory outside biology.

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This text sets out to prove that classic ideas of the mind, learning and memory must be re-examined through the lens of modern biology. It shows that research in the molecular and brain sciences has made it possible to develop research programmes that unravel problems like human nature and society.

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Lynn and Vanhanen test the hypothesis on the causal relationship between the average national intelligence (IQ) and the gap between rich and poor countries by empirical evidence.

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Proposes a new approach to the study of mental phenomena which applies selectionist ideas to problems of mind and behavior.

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Answers the question "how does art evoke emotion" and explains how art is a powerful factor in human social behavior.

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Essays dealing with the life and ideas of Darwin as they relate to human sociobiology.

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In the mid-20th century, integrative efforts began concerning the brain and its social and humanistic functions. As the century ended, however, such efforts were lost in the surge of new effort in brain and genome research.

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A treatment of one of the major constructs of behavioral science - general mental ability - labeled the g factor by its discoverer, Charles Spearman.