“Man, with all his noble qualities, still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.” – Charles Darwin

Where did we come? And where are we headed?

In Dominance and Delusion, the author, a retired engineer with a strong interest in anthropology and sociology, looks at evolution and its impact on the human animal. He gives a penetrating analysis of our human nature and acknowledges that several important questions must be addressed, some of the definitive ones being: Why did we come to be the way we are? Why do we behave as we do? Why do we believe as we do? Why do we think as we do?

This book is an attempt to answer these and many other questions about us. Author M.A. Curtis adopts an objective, unbiased, scientific, and dispassionate attitude in his quest for answers. In the process, he finds that many of us are biased in favor of the human animal. We tend to excuse much of what we see that is problematical about our behavior. We attempt to find rationale in war. We look for reason in murder. We want desperately for us to be nice, kind, and altruistic. This attitude presents us with a biased view of our humanity.

When viewed as an animal, and as part of the animal kingdom, some surprising conclusions are reached when the question is asked, “Why do we do the things we do?”

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