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Praise for Natural Selections: Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution

"Combining humane sensibility with commonsense, wisdom, knowledge, wit, and sheer intelligence, David Barash's writing is a tonic for the mind." — Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion

"...entertaining and thought-provoking." — Steven Pinker, author of The Blank Slate

"Absurdly [labeled by] neoconservative David Horowitz as one of America's 101 most dangerous academics… [author] David Barash's latest book… seeks to follow the concepts of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology to their logical conclusions." — L.A. Weekly

"The writing is lucid, lively, and imaginative, and makes skillful use of analogies." — Choice

"Natural Selections picks up where Steven Jay Gould left off. A delightful read." — Michael Shermer, author of Why Darwin Matters

"David Barash's lively yet serious writing provides an intelligent, expert introduction to the latest and best evolutionary thinking about human behavior." — Ellen Dissanaykae, author of Homo Aestheticus

"'Touche,' the slashing fencer shouts in Thurber's celebrated cartoon, while the sliced head hardly knows what's hit it. Such is the fate of sacred cows that find themselves in the path of the redoubtable David Barash." — Harold Fromm, Co-editor of the Ecocriticism Reader