Sapolsky starts off with his dream about what he might do to Hitler in his violent fantasy and I was sort of disappointed he didn't return to this at the end. On the other hand how do you justice to a subject so wide-ranging and complex and limit the word count to less than 10000 pages? So there are always areas that are lacking, missed or over emphasised and in any popular science book there will always be opinion, the whole thing about free will perhaps being one unncessary distraction. It's long and complex but well narrated and packed with Sapolsky quips and mirth at times when the going gets really tough e.g the ghastly section on game theory to explain facets of altruism that makes you head for the fast-forward button. I have spent some thing thinking about how to review this book. Did Hitler have free will (and other stuff)?
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