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The Search for Society: Quest for a Biosocial Science and Morality

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This truly is a stunning book. All throughout, the reader can sense Fox's frustration with his colleagues and with humanity's view of itself in general. This is a plea for the longest kind of perspective, one that recognizes the horrifically-disturbing blip that history represents on the 5-million year timeline that is the human story. Fox makes it unabashedly clear that if we do not embrace an evolutionary view of ourselves, we are destined to live in out-of-control, frustrating, dehumanizing societies. The closest thinker that I have found to Fox is Paul Shepard, another brilliant scholar who shreds the boundaries of disciplines. But Fox is even bolder in his challenge to the academy and it's Enlightenment heritage, dismissing as useless much of the classic thought, as well as the current drivel -- since neither considers the full ethical implications of a Darwinian worldview. Great stuff!