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:

Marean’s Google Scholar Page

 

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

Ancient Tech: Stone Weapons

Articles:

Expert Blogger: A Spark or an Ember?

The Evolution of Hominin Diets: The Impact of Projectile Weaponry on Late Pleistocene Hominin Evolution

Research Papers:

Journal of Archeological Science – Experimental Tests of Middle Paleolithic Spear Points Using a Calibrated Crossbow

Journal of Archeological Science – The origins of lithos projectile point technology: evidence from Africa, the Levant, and Europe

University of Chicago Journals – Homo Sapien is as Homo Sapien was

Other:

Google Scholar Site

 

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:

Google Scholar Site

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:

Scientific Reports – External ballistics of Pleistocene hand-thrown spears: experimental performance data and implications for human evolution

Other:

Google Scholar Page

 

Professor Elizabeth Cashdan

Articles:

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