<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp142fc05dyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="ydp142fc05dyiv2542487115"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;" class="ydp142fc05dyiv2542487115ydp1bcbca95yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr">Our book for June is <i>Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Humanity</i> by Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods. The discussion will take place on Saturday, June 15 at 2:30 pm at the Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library, located at 303 Washington Ave., New Haven.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center;"><div class="ydp142fc05dyiv2542487115ydpe309fb72img-preview-wrapper"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:d6a7f277-ba56-4164-953f-05c7a5cc467f@yahoo.com" style="max-width:800px;" class="ydp142fc05dyiv2542487115ydpc7dc6c31yahoo-inline-image" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" data-id="<d6a7f277-ba56-4164-953f-05c7a5cc467f@yahoo.com>"><br><br></div><div style="text-align:left;" class="ydp142fc05dyiv2542487115ydpe309fb72img-preview-wrapper"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.02em;">From Amazon:</span><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Since Charles Darwin wrote about “evolutionary fitness,” the idea of fitness has been confused with physical strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. In fact, what made us evolutionarily fit was a remarkable kind of friendliness, a virtuosic ability to coordinate and communicate with others that allowed us to achieve all the cultural and technical marvels in human history. Advancing what they call the “self-domestication theory,” Brian Hare… and his wife, Vanessa Woods…shed light on the mysterious leap in human cognition that allowed Homo sapiens to thrive.</div><div><br></div><div>But this gift for friendliness came at a cost. Just as a mother bear is most dangerous around her cubs, we are at our most dangerous when someone we love is threatened by an “outsider.” The threatening outsider is demoted to sub-human, fair game for our worst instincts. Hare’s groundbreaking research…reveals that the same traits that make us the most tolerant species on the planet also make us the cruelest. <i>Survival of the Friendliest</i> offers us a new way to look at our cultural as well as cognitive evolution and sends a clear message: In order to survive and even to flourish, we need to expand our definition of who belongs.</div><div><br></div><div>“An utterly persuasive explanation for why the human psyche has evolved to be dangerous – and what to do about it. It should be read by every politician and every schoolchild.”—Richard Wrangham, author of <i>The Goodness Paradox</i></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(38, 40, 42);letter-spacing:-0.02em;">Hope to see you on the 15th,</span><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(38, 40, 42);font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;">Kevin & Paula</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>