In this updated edition of his captivating, extensively researched Darwin Day in America, Dr. John G. West tells the disturbing story of scientific expertise run amok, exposing how an ideological interpretation of Darwinian biology and reductionist science has been used to degrade American culture. Featuring a new chapter on the rise of "totalitarian science" in the age of Obama. At the dawn of the twentieth century, scientists and politicians giddily...

The evolutionary biologist builds on decades of research to outline a paradigm-changing new approach to the applications of evolutionary theory in today's social and cultural institutions.