The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity

Michael G. Marmot

The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

Robert Wald Sussman

Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress

Christopher Ryan

Patterns of Culture

Ruth Benedict

Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths about Human Nature

Agustín Fuentes

The Interpretation of Cultures

Clifford Geertz

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

James C. Scott

Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity

Bruce Bagemihl

Inside the Criminal Mind

Stanton E. Samenow

The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime

Adrian Raine

The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

Daniel E. Lieberman

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Robert M. Sapolsky

Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along

Stefan Klein

Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

M. Chris Fabricant

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

Daniel Z. Lieberman

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

David Eagleman