Ridley has published several excellent books. [[the-red-queen]], [[the-rational-optimist]] are some of my favorites. This is an informative book, and Ridley goes to great pains to tell a history of humanity through each of our chromosomes. He doesn’t quite pull it off. But if you’re interested in ge...

I really like this book until about 2/3 of the way in, when he began interviewing someone who is trying to implement some of the ideas of the book in his business, and some of the claims seemed a bit handwavy to me. I stopped reading eventually. The history part of it was good. The modern stuff seem...

Not as good as [[the-moral-animal]] but it’s still an interesting book.

The Moral Animal The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright explores how evolutionary forces have shaped human psychology and behavior....