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"The Moral Animal" explores questions of morality and ethics through the lens of evolutionary biology. Spicing up the book is a parallel thread that supports its evolutionary psychology conclusions with examples from Darwin's own personal life. If you enjoy thinking about evolution, the forces shaping our minds, feelings and instincts, and haven't read much about this topic before then you might enjoy it. However, if you've comfortable with the subtleties of the term "selfish" in "The Selfish Gene" you will find the first half repetitive and the second half overly hand-wavy, vague and unconvincing. Final recommendation: Go ahead if you'd like a quick intro to evolution and its effects on our minds. Expect to be tickled by arguments, but ultimately unconvinced of anything. 3/5
— Andrej Karpathy
2015-11-01 on goodreads.com