Book Review: Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence

McKee, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1813-0521 (2024) Book Review: Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence. Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology, 3 (2024). ISSN 2653-7656

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Abstract

Wilkinson is a professor of psychiatry at Yale University who brings his knowledge to bear in Purpose on the question of evolution’s ability to explain our nature, with particular focus on our social and individual need for meaning and relationships. He is a celebrant of nature’s capacity to form our behaviour through evolution’s constrained, yet comprehensive ability. This is the best work yet for a popular audience in expositing evolution’s formative process for our dual nature of selfishness and altruism, lust and love, aggression and cooperation, individual and societal needs, and capacity for freedom.