The Human Instinct | Kenneth R. Miller

To many of the most passionate advocates for Darwin’s theory, we are just one species among multitudes, no more significant than any other. Even our minds are not our own, they tell us, but living machines programmed for nothing but survival and reproduction.

In The Human Instinct, Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller confronts both lay and professional misconceptions about evolution, showing that while evolution explains how our bodies and brains were shaped, that heritage does not limit or predetermine human behavior.

In fact, Miller argues in this “highly recommended” (Forbes) work that it is only thanks to evolution that we have the power to shape our destiny.

Equal parts natural science and philosophy, The Human Instinct makes a lucid and engaging case that it was evolution that gave us our humanity.