ABSTRACT
Now it may seem that if we have to leave unresolved the question of which degree of Darwinism is right, that sabotages the whole project of this book. Its concern is the implications of Darwinism for our understanding of ourselves; but if the earlier arguments have been right, merely crossing the threshold to the first level of Darwinism does not make much difference to traditional views about the human situation.The real threats to tradition seem to come with the later transitions, first to materialism, and then to the gene-machine idea and evolutionary psychology. Surely, then, we cannot find out about the implications of Darwinism for ourselves until we have decided which degree of Darwinism is right?
