About the Author

Michael Shermer is the author of The Believing Brain, Why People Believe Weird Things, The Science of Good and Evil, The Mind Of The Market, Why Darwin Matters, Science Friction, How We Believe and other books on the evolution of human beliefs and behavior. He is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the editor of Skeptic.com, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University. He lives in Southern California.

Reviews

"Unusually useful . . . may foreshadow a new spirit of amity and mutual inquiry." --Washington Post Book World "Ranges eloquently and learnedly over broad areas of philosophy, theology, and science." --Scientific American