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Pollitt, Katha | November 14, 1994 issue

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Family values may not be flourishing in actual families, but they certainly are having a banner season at the bookstore. Autumn opened with author Robert Wright's "The Moral Animal," which argues that evolution designed human beings to be unfaithful, the men to search for youth and beauty, the women for security and wealth, but also to prosper best collectively when this tendency is constrained by the mores of the English upper middle classes, circa 1850. One could buy this book as a vote against family values, organized religion and mammoth book advances for worthless celebrity nonbooks.

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MORAL Animal, The (Book); WRIGHT, Robert; MIDDLE class; VALUES; FAMILIES; BOOKS
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