May natural selection contain seeds of our destruction? Do unintended consequences haunt our means of production? Natural Selection's Paradox: The Outlaw Gene, the Religion of Money, and the Origin of Evil by Carter Stroud observes an adaptive humanity on a dangerous path, one in which we increasingly adapt to our own tools and artifacts-such as money-rather than the ecology that actually defines us. One hundred and fifty years after Darwin, the consequences of adaptation are still poorly understood. They range from the shape of a nose to the religions practiced to humanity's definitions of...