Reddit reviews The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture

I think you could expand on the comment "aren't 'built'" - I guess you mean evolutionary psychology, which says that we still have stone-age genes because civilization evolved so much quicker than they did.

https://www.amazon.com/Adapted-Mind-Evolutionary-Psychology-Generation/dp/0195101073

http://www.amazon.com/Adapted-Mind-Evolutionary-Psychology-Generation/dp/0195101073

The Adapted Mind ed. by John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and Jerome H. Barkow

While evolutionary psychology is considered a "new" subfield of psychology, it has its origins in Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. Darwin argues that, in the future, psychology will be based on a foundation which is, "of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation." An excellent foundation for evolutionary psychology begins in The Origin of Species.

Regarding newer works, I would recommend Robert Wright's The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology. This is an excellent encapsulation of how evolutionary psychologists primarily interpret moral behavior in both humans and non-human animals alike.

I would also check out Jerome Barkhow's incredible work The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. I recommend this book if you're looking to understand why human intelligence is fundamentally distinct from other species, and how evolutionary forces shaped human culture.

Happy reading!