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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are, by Robert Wright (Pantheon, 467 pp., $27.50)

Robert Wright attempts to explain man as a moral animal in terms of “evolutionary psychology,” a nascent academic discipline based on the principle that humans are programmed by evolution to secure the replication of their genes. They do this primarily by having and caring for children and by helping their kinsfolk and other members of their ethnic or racial group.

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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are, by Robert Wright (Pantheon, 467 pp., $27.50)

Robert Wright attempts to explain man as a moral animal in terms of “evolutionary psychology,” a nascent academic discipline based on the principle that humans are programmed by evolution to secure the replication of their genes. They do this primarily by having and caring for children and by helping their kinsfolk and other members of their ethnic or racial group.