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Dec 19, 2023 25 tweets 10 min read
MY FAVORITE NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2023

(no particular order, and with links to some interviews)

1 - A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going, by Michael Muthukrishna (@mmuthukrishna)

Interview:
Image 2 - Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will, by Kevin Mitchell (@WiringTheBrain)

Interview:
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Dec 22, 2022 22 tweets 14 min read
MY TOP NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2022

(not in any specific order)

1 - The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology, by Jon Wisman.

Link: amazon.com/Origins-Dynami… Image 2 - Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist, by Frans de Waal.

Link: amazon.com/Different-Gend… Image
Dec 27, 2021 16 tweets 7 min read
MY TOP SCIENCE/PHILOSOPHY BOOKS OF 2021 (not in any specific order).

1 - The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution, by Kim Sterelny 2 - The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals, by Chiara Marletto
Dec 30, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
Looks I am looking forward to reading in 2021:
- The Pleistocene Social Contract, by Kim Sterelny
- Count Down, by Shanna Swan
- A Story of Us, by Peter Richerson and Lesley Newson
- Drunk on Genocide, by Edward B. Westerman
- Moral Acrobatics, by Philippe Rochat
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- Religion's Sudden Decline, by Ronald Inglehart
- The Consumer Citizen, by Ethan Porter
- Nietzsche's Values, by John Richardson
- Why It's OK to Speak Your Mind, by Hrishikesh Joshi
- The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience, by David Papineau
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Dec 30, 2020 11 tweets 4 min read
My top 10 science/philosophy books of 2020:
1 - The WEIRDest People in the World, by Joseph Henrich (@JoHenrich) 2 - Not Born Yesterday, by Hugo Mercier (@hugoreasoning)