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Finished reading Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá.
This is a very interesting book, though not for everyone: besides the nominal subject matter (that horrible S-word) and questioning the supposed "naturalness" of monogamy in humans, the authors also examine the roots of human aggression and warfare, convincingly throwing out most of the "truths" dictated by anthropologists, evolutionary psychologists and primatologists from the very beginnings of those disciplines to the modern day.
The authors accomplish this with thorough research and a saber-sharp use of simile which entertains as well as skewering many giants in their fields.
I quite enjoyed this book, and though I am sure there are some very critical attacks on this book for its contents, my feeling is that the authors are much closer to the truth of prehistoric human interactions than our current textbooks portray.
I then read the fourth Jack Reacher book, Running Blind, which is to me the best so far.
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