Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary psychology provides a crucial scientific foundation for understanding power and status, attraction, and human nature.

This category features critical reviews and summaries of the best evolutionary psychology books and handbooks—from foundational texts to cutting-edge research. Each resource is personally reviewed by Lucio Buffalmano to strengthen The Power Moves methodology and the Power University curriculum, with a focus on real-world application.

The Third Chimpanzee: Summary & Review

By Lucio Buffalmano / October 3, 2019

Good, and yet also filled with issues

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The Origins of Virtue: Summary, Review, & Criticism

By Lucio Buffalmano / July 12, 2019

Great text to understand virtue and altruism. Too bad for the political analysis.

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The Blank Slate: Summary, Review & Criticism

By Lucio Buffalmano / April 16, 2019

Wonderful analysis of social sciences, psychology, “nature VS narture”, feminism and “intellectual dogmas”

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The Red Queen: Book Summary & Review

By Lucio Buffalmano / October 28, 2018

In The Red Queen (1993) author Matt Ridley zigzags with ease between psychology, history, sexual strategies, and mounds of research to much light on why

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Sperm Wars: A Misleading Classic of Evolutionary Mating Theory

By Lucio Buffalmano / October 20, 2018

Some deeply eye opening content but also, unluckily, quite a few unfounded and wrong claims that cast quite some shadows on the book as a whole.

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Sex At Dawn: Summary, Review & Criticism

By Lucio Buffalmano / January 8, 2018

Are we a monogamous species? Maybe not so much. You will learn a lot about sex and sexual drives in humans

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