The Invention of Good and Evil
Hanno Sauer is a professor of ethics at the University of Utrecht and lives in Düsseldorf. His book, written for a general audience and well crafted, presents an engaging structure and traces the...
Evolution
The rigtheous mind
Haidt is known for his sociological studies. In this case, he analyzes the morality of American society, which shares some similarities with our own, through cultural psychology. The author defines himself...
Inheritance
It is an ambitious essay that seeks to explain why the modern world—with its democracies, complex economies, organized religions, and powerful states—emerged as it did. The author draws on evolutionary...
Galapagos
Eccentric, almost crazy, Vonnegut’s novel builds a science fiction satire on the evolution of humankind, narrated by a sort of ghost with a million-year perspective. It consists of two parts: the first, "...
The Overstory
Richard Powers is a professor at the universities of Stanford and Illinois, as well as author of twelve award-winning novels. The Overstory could be classified as a "thesis novel" that tries to answer the...
Darwin: Portrait of a Genius
The historian Paul Johnson, centers on the controversial figure of Charles Darwin. For many scientists Darwin is a model to follow, but they leave behind the fact that in order to arrive at his conclusions...
The Darwin Myth
The Darwin Myth is a short biography of Charles of Darwin and a discussion of his ideas and their implications. Darwin, the grandson of an enthusiastic proponent of evolution, was born in a...
Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution
The author is a philosopher who has studied in detail the scientific writing of evolutionary scientists. He argues that the Darwinian theory of evolution, which (following Malthus) postulates maximum...