I'm currently switching between two interesting volumes, depending on my mood:
The first is The Moral Animal by Robert Wright. A fascinating book that looks over various theories of evolutionary psychology, and argues that human behavioural traits can be explained in terms of behaviour and instincts that would have helped us to survive in our wild ancestral environment, and the author cleverly illustrates his arguments with examples taken from Charles Darwin's personal life.

And the second is this month's Viz.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:37, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I found out during my degree that pretty much anything can be logically
explained by evolutionary psychology and the advantages it gave us as a developing species.
At the same time we know relativly little about our enviroment as we were developing.
So I don't trust it at all.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:41, Reply)

I'm not sure that's entirely fair
Obviously nobody's going to dig up photo albums of the very first human settlements or bands of travelling nomads, but it's possible to infer an awful lot: it's certainly very telling to see the parallels between the "primitive" hunter-gatherer tribes that still exist today and the way we behave in "civilised" society. The similarities between ourselves and other pack animals is also suggestive of quite a lot.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:48, Reply)

I think it's a branch of Psychology which is going the wrong way.
Back to the days of introspection and vague assumptions. While most other branches are heading further towards a pure science fully testable and evidence based disipline.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:52, Reply)