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Ev psych insists, rightly, that we not ignore our similarities to the higher- and lower-order creatures, but it's weak on subjectivity, self-awareness, self-consciousness, whatever you want to call it--on how we explain our tangled mass of hormonal impulses to ourselves.
The cover story calls the nation's home renovation boom a "historic trend" arising from "ancient" and "fundamentally human" impulses.
"America, with its Wilsonian moral impulses, could not be held indefinitely in an alliance that sat back, fat and happy, while atrocities were being committed on a large scale in Europe's backyard," it said.
"Kin selection" accounts for the evolution of altruistic impulses toward close relatives.
From the start, Brooks' impulses have taken him to the source of his darkest anxieties.