Geary (psychological sciences, U. of Missouri) argues that all evolutionary natural selection leads to an "arms race" within or between species in which individuals seek competitive advantage and ecological dominance. In humans, he argues, success in this "motivation to control" depends on "modular brain and cognitive systems in the domains of folk psychology, folk biology, and folk physics and on affective, conscious-psychological, and executive cognitive systems." He argues that core social dynamics are at the root of the evolution of brain, cognitive, conscious-psychological, and affective traits and that those dynamics remain in existence in modern societies. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)