I have acquired a paperback copy of Human Natures by Paul Ehrlich (known 40 years ago for "Population Bomb)...and I have been browsing thru it, trying to decide if I'm up to reading it cover to cover.

As far as I am concerned, this is as good an explanation of evolution as one can get....along with insight as to how the 'sciences' of biology, chemistry & anthropology help explain just what makes us human, and the resultant problems of being such a unique species of animal.

Yes...Ehrlich still suggests that we are in serious danger from our "nature" and the resultant population increases, but you CAN read this simply to clarify the processes which brought us here.

This book was published in 2000, and obviously there have been many new discoveries in Anthropology and such in 10 years, but with this book as basis, it is reasonably easy to integrate new data with the general principles outlined.

No one who reads this with an open mind can seriously contest the major findings in evolution and the implications of the analysis.