Essential Building Blocks of Human Nature

1. Our Origins: What Makes Us Different from Apes?
Peter Kappeler

2. Our Children: Parental Decisions — How Much to Invest in Your Offspring
Mary K. Shenk

3. Our Social Roots: How the Local Ecology Shapes Our Social Structures
Ruth Mace

4. Our Emotions: Explaining Emotions — Reducing a Complex Phenomenon
Frank Rösler

5. Our Morality: Cooperation and Cultural Differences
Benjamin G. Purzycki, Richard Sosis

6. Our Preferences: Why We Like What We Like
Karl Grammer, Elisabeth Oberzaucher

7. Our Appetite for Information: Ancestral Brains in Modern Environments — The Influences of Media
Matthias Uhl

8. Our Best Shot at Truth: Why Humans Evolved Mathematical Abilities
Niklas Krebs

9. Our Way to Understand the World: Evolutionary Humanism — A World Without God
Michael Schmidt-Salomon

Keywords: Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Popular Science in Psychology, Epistemology, Cognitive Psychology