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Godzooks David Berlinski reviews Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. To the question of whether human beings are shortly to become like gods, Berlinski answers not any time soon.
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Behavior David Lahti reviews a recent book on how and to what extent genes determine behavior by philosopher of science Kenneth Schaffner: Behaving–What’s Genetic, What’s Not, and Why Should We Care?
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Great Scott James C. Scott’s Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States explores the mixed blessings of agriculture and animal domestication. George Scialabba casts a critical eye over Scott’s book.

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To Be, Not To Be, Maybe Philosopher of science Tim Maudlin reviews a recent book on quantum theory and its implications for philosophy: Quantum Ontology: A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics by Peter J. Lewis.
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Equal by Catastrophe Is economic equality all it’s cracked up to be? Victor Davis Hanson reviews Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
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Odd Man Out A review of Roger Penrose’s Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy by physicist Andrew Jordan. An ironic tension: Penrose attacks contemporary physics as fanciful; his own proposals are just as farfetched.

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Recollections of Some Notable Texts A recent collection of Freeman Dyson’s lectures, Advanced Quantum Mechanics, is reviewed by Jeremy Bernstein, alongside other published lectures by Julian Schwinger and Steven Weinberg.
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Another Great Story Of myths and legends. Wendy Doniger reviews Asko Parpola’s The Roots of Hinduism. Astonishingly erudite, Parpola often allows his imagination and desire to reach beyond the available evidence.
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How Things Hang Together George Scialabba reviews Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science by Peter Watson, and his description of the progressive unification of the sciences.

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