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Title: Entertaining, but a little suspect.
Review: Ridley started off well, but didn't quite manage to pull me along all the way. I have no problem with sociobiological tough mindedness, in fact I'm all for it, as dynamite under moral-philosophical silliness about categorical moral imperatives and objective moral absolutes. However I've read better presentations than this, and I found just irritating the way an apology for Thatcherite conservatism is snuck in towards the end, in a new fangled version of Social Darwinism that is more simple than tough minded. Credit where credit is due though, it is definitely good in parts, and there are lots of entertaining facts. I'm told that his book on the origins of sex is better.
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