This book is a must-have for philosophers of psychology, philosophers of biology, philosophers of the social sciences, and, more generally, anybody who is interested in the evolution of mind and behavior. The anthropologists Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson have collected twenty of their most important articles written between 1987 and 2003. This collection is an excellent initiative, since thes...

Almost exactly IOO years ago, in fact on 23 September, 1880, John Boyd Orr was born quite near here, at Kilmaurs, Ayrshire. It is fitting that this lecture should be given in the University of Glasgow with which he had such close relations, first as a student and research assistant, and later as Rector and finally Chancellor. I think that the best way of paying tribute to this remarkable man in...