Description: "An analysis of the ways that evolution explains why societies succeed and fail"--
Brief description:
Nicholas Wade is a journalist who was educated in Cambridge, England, and has worked at Nature Science, and for 30 years at the New York Times where he was an editorial writer and science editor. He is the author of three books about recent human evolution - Before the Dawn, The Faith Instinct and A Troublesome Inheritance. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.