Tim Tyler: Book reviews

I've reviewed some books over the last few years - many of them relevant to cultural evolution in some way. I used to make videos of my book reviews relating to cultural evolution and memetics - and post them on this blog. These videos have become less frequent - but I still read and review many books. To summarize this activity, my reviews are listed below:

1. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
2. Memetics: Evolutionary Perspective for Interpreting Culture by Mr Eko Wijayanto
3. The Mystery of Metamorphosis: A Scientific Detective Story by Frank Ryan
4. The Domestication of Language: Cultural Evolution and the Uniqueness of the Human Animal by Daniel Cloud
5. Machine Super Intelligence by Shane Legg
6. Evolution As Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology by Daniel R. Brooks and E. O. Wiley
7. The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation by John E. Mayfield
8. Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation - by Joe Henrich and Nathalie Henrich
9. Evolution, the Extended Synthesis edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B. Müller
10. Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution - by F. John Odling-Smee, Kevin Laland, Marcus Feldman
11. Evolution's Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide (Science and Cultural Theory) by Susan Oyama
12. Darwinian Sociocultural Evolution: Solutions to Dilemmas in Cultural and Social Theory by Marion Blute
13. Ethical Artificial Intelligence by Bill Hibbard
14. Disinfect your mind by Ely Asher
15. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
16. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
17. The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos
18. Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man by Mark Changizi
19. The Anthropic Principle: Man as the Focal Point of Nature by Reinhard Breuer
20. The Evolution of Everything: How Selection Shapes Culture, Commerce, and Nature by Mark Sumner
21. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
22. The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress by Peter Singer
23. Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
24. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
25. Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are by Marlene Zuk
26. Darwinian Dynamics by Richard Michod
27. Darwin Does Physics by John Campbell
28. Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World by Leslie Valiant
29. Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe Is Just Right for Life by Paul Davies
30. The Biology of Moral Systems by Richard Alexander
31. Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion by Richerson and Whitehouse
32. Science and Selection: Essays on Biological Evolution and the Philosophy of Science by David L. Hull
33. War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin
34. Proving Darwin: Making Biology Mathematical by Gregory Chaitin
35. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
36. Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence by Pamela McCorduck
37. The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos by James N. Gardner
38. Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy by Nick Bostrom
39. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
40. Genetic Takeover: And the Mineral Origins of Life by A. G. Cairns-Smith
41. A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution Paperback by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
42. In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy, and the Unity of Nature by John Whitfield
43. Mathematical Models of Social Evolution: A Guide for the Perplexed by Richard McElreath and Rob Boyd
44. Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
45. The Ghosts Of Evolution Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, And Other Ecological Anachronisms by Connie C. Barlow
46. Guerrilla Creativity: Make Your Message Irresistible with the Power of Memes by Jay Conrad Levinson
47. The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future by Martin Ford
48. Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science by Robert Aunger
49. Zarrella's Hierarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design, and Engineering of Contagious Ideas by Dan Zarella
50. The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves by W. Brian Arthur
51. Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization by Adrian Bejan
52. Biocosm: The New Scientific Theory of Evolution: Intelligent Life Is the Architect of the Universe by James N. Gardner
53. Did Darwin Get It Right?: Essays on Games, Sex and Evolution by John Maynard Smith
54. The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest by Yochai Benkler
55. Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection by Peter Godfrey-Smith
56. Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame by Christopher Boehm
57. Evolutionary Worlds without End by H. C. Plotkin
58. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
59. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
60. The Evolutionary World: How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization by Geerat J. Vermeij
61. Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life by Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan
62. The Origin and Evolution of Cultures by Robert Boyd
63. Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges by George C. Williams
64. The Dawn of Symbolic Life: The Future of Human Evolution by Jon Beach
65. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
66. I'll Have What She's Having: Mapping Social Behavior by Alex Bentley
67. The Imagined World Made Real by H. C. Plotkin
68. Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge by H. C. Plotkin
69. What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
70. The Complete Universe of Memes: Branches of Reality on The Reality Tree by Lloyd Whitling
71. Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
72. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
73. An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics by Scott M. James
74. Cosmos and Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context by NASA History Division
75. The Things We Do: Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to Understand the What, How, and Why of Our Behavior by Gary Cziko
76. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
77. Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity by William H. Durham
78. Culture and the Evolutionary Process by Robert Boyd
79. People Will Talk: The Surprising Science of Reputation by John Whitfield
80. The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson
81. Darwinism and Human Affairs by Richard D. Alexander
82. The Mocking Memes: A Basis for Automated Intelligence by Mark Martin
83. The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind by William H. Calvin
84. Plan and Purpose in Nature: The Limits of Darwinian Evolution by George C. Williams
85. Evolution and the Levels of Selection by Samir Okasha
86. Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson
87. CHECheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees : The nature of cooperation in animals and humans by Lee Alan Dugatkin
88. Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes by William F. Harms
89. Contagious Ideas: On Evolution, Culture, Archaeology and Cultural Virus Theory by Ben Sandford Cullen
90. On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves) by Jonnie Hughes
91. The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin by Keith E. Stanovich
92. The Origin of Everything via Universal Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Systems in Contention for Existence by D. B. Kelley
93. Summary of The Origin of Cultures by John Lin
94. Universal Darwinism: The path of knowledge by John Campbell
95. The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness by Lee Alan Dugatkin
96. Genes, Memes, Culture, and Mental Illness: Toward an Integrative Model by Hoyle Leigh
97. Genes, Memes and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution by Stephen Shennan
98. Darwin's Blind Spot: Evolution Beyond Natural Selection by Frank Ryan
99. SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed by M. A. Nowak
100. The Imitation Factor: Evolution Beyond The Gene by Lee Alan Dugatkin
101. Ever-Expanding Horizons: The Dual Informational Sources of Human Evolution by Carl P. Swanson
102. The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection by W. G. Runciman
103. Genes, Mind, And Culture: The Coevolutionary Process by Charles J. Lumsden
104. Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences by Alex Mesoudi
105. Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind by Charles J. Lumsden
106. Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour by Kevin N. Laland
107. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Memes by Damon Brown
108. The Selfish Meme by Kate Distin

Amazon indexes many of my book reviews here.