CONTENTS
PREFACE Vti
PA RT I The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage,
and the Ghost in the Machine 1
Chapter 1 The Official Theory 5
Chapter 2 Silly Putty 14
Chapter 3 The Last Wall to Fall 30
Chapter 4 Culture Vultures 59
Chapter 5 The Slate's Last Stand 73
PART II Fear and Loathing 103
Chapter 6 Political Scientists 105
Chapter 7 The Holy Trinity 121
PART III Human Nature with a Human Face 137
Chapter 8 The Fear of Inequality 141
Chapter 9 The Fear of Imperfectibility 159
Chapter 10 The Fear of Determinism 174
Chapter 11 The Fear of Nihilism 186
PART IV Know Thyself 195
Chapter 12 In Touch with Reality 197
Chapter 13 Out of Our Depths 219
Chapter 14 The Many Roots of Our Suffering 241
Chapter 15 The Sanctimonious Animal 269
PART V Hot Buttons 281
Chapter 16 Politics 283
Chapter 17 Violence 306
Chapter 18 Gender 337
Chapter 19 Children 372
Chapter 20 The Arts 400
PART VI The Voice of the Species 421
APPENDIX: Donald E. Brown's List of Human Universals 435
NOTES 441
REFERENCES 461
INDEX 491