One and a Half Human Natures – 20. Source Reviews Prepared by Students
Under the course “Evolutionary-Biological Foundations of Human Behavior,” students are invited to prepare reviews of sources related to course topics. This page collects video reviews.
According to the course program “Evolutionary-Biological Foundations of Human Behavior,” students are asked to prepare source reviews related to the course topics. This page collects video reviews of books from the course library.
In the instructor’s view, this collection can serve both as examples of how reviews should be made and of how they should not be made. Preferably, a review should be informative and engaging, made in Ukrainian, accompanied by a presentation, and delivered as a narrative rather than read from paper. An example of a review in the instructor’s preferred style is here. In the instructor’s opinion, “gags” used to attract attention in TikTok are not suitable within an academic course. Recommendations on software are provided here.
Reviews of 2021
Daryna Ipolitova on Frans de Waal’s “Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex among Apes”
Anastasiia Shyrobokova on James Miller’s “Food and Evolution”
Volodymyr Shabanov on Richard Dawkins’s “The Extended Phenotype”
Oleksandr Kuznietsov on Andriy Kurpatov’s “The Red Pill”
Kseniia Obidena on Randolph Nesse’s “Good Reasons for Bad Feelings”
Daryna Svitlychna on Marina Butovska’s “Anthropology of Sex”
Anastasiia Staroverova on Larry Young and Brian Alexander’s “The Chemistry of Love”
Yeva Oriekhova on Richard Dawkins’s “The Selfish Gene”
Reviews of 2020
Vasyl Tovstrohai on Desmond Morris’s “The Naked Ape”
Yuliia Hrechana on Edward Wilson’s “The Meaning of Human Existence”
Liudmyla Bronnikova on Alvin Broderick’s “Sex, Play and Chocolate”
Danylo Klymenko on Jared Diamond’s “The World Until Yesterday”
Oksana Horiacheva on Larry Young and Brian Alexander’s “The Chemistry of Love”
An important comment, in my opinion, on Oksana’s presentation: in the discussed book, menstruation is treated as not fully concealed and thus as estrus. This view seems highly debatable to me. Oksana confidently speaks of estrus in women; in my view, this should not be stated without clarification. If interested, see the relevant fragment of the book (a few pages after page 36). Also, the fact that men give dancers more tips during menstruation may result from dancers unconsciously moving differently. D.Sh.
Andrii Shnakenberh on Matt Ridley’s “The Origins of Virtue”
Maryna Yerofieieva on Andriy Kurpatov’s “The Red Pill”