Human Sin or Social Sin

--THE BOOK THAT CAUSED A SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION--

Is the West today a unified or diverse culture? The orthodox position is that we should be strictly unified around the ideal of diversity. The idealistic vision is that we achieve redemption by angrily rejecting our immoral, fallen history, and lovingly embrace the sunny future of diversity, the rapture. Heaven is Nature and the perfectly loving and diverse future; Hell is the disdainful and divisive past. Today, ethical and scientific facts that imply hellish disdain, and not love, are experienced as domineering or a "hegemonic discourse" and are worthy of attack: "Subvert the Dominant Paradigm "-Walter Burkert, the eminent historian of religion said of this model, "Many thanks for the startlingly insights." Anthropologist Henry Harpending said, "Full of fascinating stuff."

The nineteenth century was unified by exalting high culture and disliking nature and diversity. We today have inverted this; we are unified by disdain for high culture, and love for nature and diversity: so joyful, altruistic feelings exist between those in the group who embrace the new unity-but they direct antagonism toward outsiders. Today's new unity, as described in Human Sin or Social Sin, inspired evolutionary psychologists to reconsider the theory of group selection for altruism. Anthropologist Robert Trivers described the inversion as, "The best interpretation of the Left I've ever read."

Two of the central theses in the book have passed peer review by the Human Behavior and Evolution Society via two paper abstracts that can be cited.

The findings in Human Sin or Social Sin have been reproduced by four different publications. 1) Edward O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth (Liveright, 2013); (2) Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature (Penguin Publishers, 2013); (3) David Buss, Ed., The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology (John Wiley & Sons,2016); (4) Joseph Carroll et al. Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences (Oxford University Press, 2016).

"For the select few who appreciate a masterful weaving of history, philosophy and the arts (from grand opera to the movies) the book is a tour de force. Reading it is like a return to college. For those concerned about the state of modern life, it is a must read."-Robert Weissberg, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, New York University.

"Modern sleep and dream science teaches us, as does Human Sin or Social Sin that all human activities, including art and politics are products of the human brain and that each of us has the privilege and responsibility of using it actively and communicating its creations."-Dr. J. Allan Hobson, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, author of "Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep" (Oxford University Press, 2004) & "From Angels to Neurones: Art and the New Science of Dreaming."

"This tome has conquered the two worlds that have divided scholarship for two centuries; Dr Dachslager has brought together the humanities and sciences and integrated new dimensions of the evolutionary psychology of politics, religion, art, group selection and history. This is all rooted in findings in primate behavior in Human Sin or Social Sin."--Richard Lynn, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Ulster.

"Dr. Dachslager has a discerning eye, and unlike many academics, including myself, he has the range to connect fashionable academic theory to pop culture. I enjoyed in particular the disection of the race question."--Robert Paquette, Ph.D., Professor of American History, Hamilton College, co-editor of "The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas" (2016). Prof. Paquette is cofounder of the Alexander Hamilton Institute.

For Dr. Paul Dachslager's curriculum vita, further endorsements and a writing sample describing the peer review, see the website on the Amazon Author Page.