Well, I can tell you that the book isn't about cannibalism. It isn't pessimistic about us transcending chimp-ness either. The point is that when it comes to p

Well, I can tell you that the book isn't about cannibalism. It isn't pessimistic about us transcending chimp-ness either. The point is that when it comes to politics, we very definitely are not there yet. Not even close. We've done a better job of transcending our chimp-ness in just about every other field of human endeavor than we have in politics.