Dominance and Delusion

About the Book

An engineer looks at evolution and its impact on the human animal. The author, a retired engineer, with a strong interest in anthropology, analyses us. The definitive question being why. Why did we come to be the way we are? Why do we behave as we do? Why do we believe as we do? Why do we think as we do?

This book is an attempt to answer these and many other questions about us. The author adopts an objective, unbiased and dispassionate attitude in his quest for answers. In the process he fi nds that many of us are biased in favor of the human animal. We tend to excuse much of what we see that is problematical about our behavior. We attempt to find rationale in war. We look for reason in murder. We want desperately for us to be nice, kind, and altruistic. This attitude presents us with a biased view of the human animal.

When viewed as an animal, and as part of the animal kingdom, some surprising conclusions are reached when the question is asked “Why do we do the things we do?”

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