Review of Amazon.com: Books: The Moral Animal : Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
Why are we the way we are? Moral Animal tries to answer this question. The book was suggested to me by Patrick McKenna and Scott Faber and Alan Peterson ... all telling me the book would change the way i look at life. And while the book was not as profound as to change my outlook, it was extremely fascinating and mind expanding and i would highly suggest reading the book.
The book chronicles Darwin and his ideas. And it has some great pages relating us humans to many other animals. turns out we're not so different from a fly or a gorilla.
I was thinking about the book last night when i was discussing the Terri Schiavo case with John Fund, Jani Friedman, Chris Alden, and Rob Reid over dinner. Wright's theories about how family would react is very consistent with what is happening right now in Florida. The husband traditionally wants to increase his number of offspring and so it would be in his best interest if he could remarry (though he has already has two other kids). The parents are always fighting for their offspring to survive and see their chance of their line of genes surviving greatly diminish when one of their offspring when one of their offspring is killed -- especially as a young age.
