Originally published in 1951, Homo Faber is an examination of the scientific outlook on human mental evolution. The book aims to undermine what its terms, the 'scientific outlook' and the preconceived scientific concepts that reality does not extend beyond our senses.

The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences address scientific topics of broad and current interest, cutting across the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Each year, four or five such colloquia are scheduled, typically two days in length and international in scope. Colloquia are organized by a member of the Academy, often with the assistance of an organizing committee, and feature presentations by leading scientists in the field and discussions with a hundred or more researchers with an interest in the topic. Colloquia presentations are recorded and posted on the National Academy of Sciences Sackler colloquia website and published on CD-ROM. These Colloquia are made possible by a generous gift from Mrs. Jill Sackler, in memory of her husband, Arthur M. Sackler.

In The Evolution of Mind, outstanding figures on the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology follow clues provided by current neuroscientific evidence to illuminate many puzzling questions of human cognitive evolution. With contributions from psychologists, ethologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, the book offers a broad range of approaches to explore the mysteries of the mind's evolution - from investigating the biological functions of human cognition to drawing comparisons between human and animal cognitive abilities.

A New York University psychologist argues that the mind is a "kluge"-a clumsy, cobbled-together contraption-as he ponders the accidents of evolution that caused this structure and what we can do about it.

This book-really an essay-is the culmination of forty-five years of thinking as a psychiatrist about the relationship between severe mental illnesses and human evolution. I realized that the evolution of upright posture, large molar teeth, opposable thumbs, and large brains were all cumulative responses to a decisive shift in what MOTIVATED early humans compared to apes. I describe in vivid detail how the inner experience of major depression, panic disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder can be interpreted as emotional fossils that illustrate the ape-hominid evolutionary transformation in the mind. This understanding of how our motivations evolved not only allows you to make sense of hominid fossil finds, now with DNA, but offers a simple empathetic understanding of how self-awareness and language work.Although short and explicitly written to be accessible, this essay offers a post-Darwinian world view that is fundamentally optimistic and progressive.