Introducing Evolutionary Psychology

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The Matrix is one of my favourite movies. I love it so much, I sat down and watched 3 hours of documentaries on the blu-ray Special Edition. I'm not sure if that makes me dedicated or just sad.

One of the interviews talks about how the Wachowski Brothers made the protagonists (Neo, Morpheus, Trinity and Agent Smith) read these three books before they began filming.

The first was 'Introducing Evolutionary Psychology' by Dylan Evans and Oscar Zarate, which is part of a series of 'An Introduction to' books. Sounds scary and pretentious but actually it had pictures, speech bubbles, crazy Einstein quotes and was in general pretty easy to read.

I like the fact it treats you like an idiot - otherwise you wouldn't be reading an introductory book, right? It takes you through a brief history of psychology and makes a good case for human evolution. I personally don't think creation and evolution are mutually exclusive, so I'm happy to go with that theory.

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