I thought the book was pretty interesting. I have listen to it rather than reading it. The ending was excellent with some great insights and research. It was worth a read and I may have to try the written version.

I feel the author is just putting everything together. Good review of all the subjects he mentioned in the book.

Really easy to read and well written. My lecturer's book and although I have many strong, affective responses to the conclusions made by evo psych, the data does certainly tend in particular directions. I just disagree with the causation suggested and that's okay. Recommend to anyone who wants a starting point for evolutionary psych.

This is the best book I've read so far to explain our evolution as humans and to understand how this affects our everyday life and most importantly our happiness. William does a great job to outline our human evolution in a way that sparks curiosity and laughter, without it getting boring. Through the book, he cites many studies and tells a lot of stories, that make it easy to absorb the content and think about implications for your own life.

While I appreciated the accessible way William Von Hippel talks about evolution, this book is almost too thin in providing any "new" light into who we are and where we came from. This book had its moments (Baboons and Elephants sticks out) and there were a handful of studies that were shared that were interesting. Unfortunately, there was a lack of balance in these insightful data collections and then super sweeping conclusions that I didn't (or rather couldn't) buy into.

There was also a consistent tone deafness to his personal touches that I would have preferred were not included. Lots of cringe-worthy jokes in the footnotes and personal stories that I believe were intended to make the author more relatable, but I found to be more alienating.

The last section on happiness kind of came out of nowhere and felt disconnected from the first two parts of the book. While his conclusions and recommendations around happiness align with other sources, I've found those other sources to be more interesting and understandable.

La conclusión del último capítulo y el epílogo son excelentes, entonces uno queda con la sensación de que le gustó el libro. Pero no. La estructura lo hace entretenido de leer, y tiene analogías interesantes, pero la interpretación de la evidencia científica, me parece a mi, es muy rara. Y las ideas que propone no me parecen ni novedosas ni útiles. No lo recomendaría. Sobre evolución, mejor Sapiens 10000000 veces; y sobre sociología, mejor sigo leyendo a Malcolm Gladwell.

Definitely would have loved to have had him as a Professor!