The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Resource Page – Learning Materials.
Here are some helpful resources for The Lens. Some of these are also listed in the citations section of each pillar. Some of these resources are unique and not used for citations in each pillar.
Dr. Curtis Marean
Videos:
Presentation of Marean’s Hypothesis: How Coastal Life Shaped the Evolution of Our Species
Articles:
ASU News – Regular Projectile Usage / Middle Stone Age
EurekAlert – Small lethal tools have big implications for early modern human complexity
Research Papers:
Nature – An early and enduring technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa
Nature – Early Humans Tooled Up
Other:
Professors Paul Bingham and Joanne Souza
Videos:
Death From A Distance: A Public Lecture Part 1
Death From A Distance: A Public Lecture Part 2
Death From A Distance: A Public Lecture Part 3
Social Coercion Theory and the Evolution of Human Violence
TEDX Lecture: Social Coercion Theory / Sex, Institutions, Politics
Articles:
Death From A Distance – Chapter One
Research Papers:
Human Uniqueness: A General Theory
Human Evolution and Human History: A Complete Theory
Ultimate Causation In Evolved Human Political Psychology: Implications For Public Policy
Dr. John Shea
Video:
Dr. John Shea: Santa Barbara Symposium on Human Origins II
Articles:
Expert Blogger: A Spark or an Ember?
Research Papers:
University of Chicago Journals – Homo Sapien is as Homo Sapien was
Other:
Dr. Jonathan Haidt
Video:
Public Lecture – The Rabbi’s wife is wrong about evolutionary psychology
Dr. Steven Pinker
Video:
“Cognitive niche” in early modern human evolution
Survival: The Past, Present, and Future of Violence
Professor David Yamane
Video:
Gun Culture 2.0: How A Liberal Professor became and Armed American
Articles:
Guns Are Normal, Normal People Use Guns
Research Papers:
The Sociology of US Gun Culture
Other:
Dr. Richard Wrangham
Video:
CARTA: Violence in Human Evolution – Richard Wrangham: Parallel Evolution of Humanity and Savagery
Dr. Matt Pope
Articles:
UCL News: Neanderthal Spears Could Kill At A Distance
Sci News: Neanderthals Produced Wooden Spears Advanced Enough To Kill At A Distance
Why This Spot On The Jersey Coast Was Like A Magnet For Neanderthals
Research papers:
Other:
Professor Elizabeth Cashdan
Live Science – The Evolution of Human Aggression (Whipps 2009)
Research Papers:
Human Nature – Evolutionary perspectives on human aggression: introduction to the special issue
Current Anthropology – Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia: A Cross-Cultural Study
Professor Robert Kelly
Video:
CARTA: Violence in Human Evolution – Robert Kelly: Do Hunter-Gatherers Tell Us About Human Nature