I've heard of it because there was a discussion about it last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1522325 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1522325 I

I've heard of it because there was a discussion about it last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1522325 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1522325 I was pretty skeptical of the book's claims, at least as they were summarized in that thread. So this review was interesting to me. (I had nothing to do with the submission though.) I still recommend The Red Queen by Matt Ridley to anyone interested in this subject.