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Review title: An excellent but somewhat rambling book.
Product review: This book makes a series of extraordinarily cogent points, and is worth close study from anyone interested in philosophy or human nature (which should be everyone). However, Dennett's erudition sometimes gets the better of him, making the book both longer than it could be and a bit hard to follow as he gathers his wide-ranging evidence. I would recommend reading Dawkins first ("The Blind Watchmaker", "The Selfish Gene", etc.), after which some of the points Dennett takes for granted will be more clear to the reader. Having said that, "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" is an excellent book for anyone wishing to form a solid foundation for asking and answering questions about human nature. This is philosophy for people who are sick of irrelevant ivory-tower rambling and dead Europeans.
