Section I. Biological Basis of Human Diversity 1. The advent of biological evolution and humankind. chance or necessity? 2. Hominins. context, origins and taxic diversity 3. The history of early Homo 4. The contribution of genetic ancestry from archaic humans to modern humans 5.
World dispersals and genetic diversity of mankind. The Out-of-Africa theory and its challenges 6. Human population variability and its adaptive significance 7. Evolution and implications of genomic diversity on 'human kind' in India 8. The human brain. evolution and distinctive features 9. How different are humans and "great apes". A matrix of comparative anthropogeny 10.
Human intergroup variation and disease genetics 11. Natural selection associated with infectious diseases 12. Aging, somatic evolution and cancer 13. Evolution of the human leucocyte antigen system 14. Human life history. Biocultural factors, community effects, and strategic growth trade-offs 15. Gorillas in our midst? Human sexual dimorphism and contest competition in men 16. The human family.
Evolutionary origins and adaptative significance 17. Epigenetics 18. Evolution of the human microbiome 19. Recent evolution in humans 20. Sex or gender. Genes versus environment Section II. Psychology, Behavior and Society 21. Biological future of humankind.
Ongoing evolution and the impact of recognition of human biological variation 22. Gene-culture models for the evolution of altruistic teaching 23. Agricultural origins and distribution in Eurasia and Africa 24. The quantum origin of life. How the brain evolved to feel good 25. Empathy, theory of mind, cognition, morality, and altruism 26. Cognitive ethology and social attention 27. Human sociobiology and Group Selection Theory 28.
Behavior analysis, Darwinian evolutionary processes, and the diversity of human behavior 29. A psychoanalyst views the self across civilizations 30. Biological and social causation of serious mental illness 31. The flexible psychological concept of normality 32. Diversity and hierarchy in the evolution of mental mechanisms 33. Human diversity at the individual and population levels, and societal hierarchies 34. Homosexuality and evolution. A critical appraisal 35.
The roots and individual diversity of addiction 36. Human variability and the origins and evolution of language 37. Human evolution and progress 38. Culture, brain, and behavior. The implications of neural plasticity and development on social contexts and political structures 39. Artificial intelligence and human nature 40. New ideologies. Decolonialism and woke culture 41.
On the changing relationship between humans and nature in the course of human development 42. Reductionism, holism and human nature 43. The future of transhumanism 44. Theory of mind Section III. Ethics, historic, political and religious aspects 45. Adaptive significance of ethics and aesthetics 46. The politics of human nature 47. Race and racism.
Biology, ethics, and politics 48. Social Darwinism 49. History and diversity of religions 50. Religion viewed from different sciences 51. Universal humanity, religious particularity, and scientific reductionism 52. Evolution and the future of medicine 53. The impact of modern medicine on human evolution 54. Science and technology in human societies.
from toolmaking to technology 55. Biology, psychology, ethics, and politics. An innate moral sense? 56. What HIV has taught about the interactions between biology, culture, and other evolving systems 57. A history of eugenics 58. A recent history of agronomy.