I have a review copy of Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence; but I'm not planning on reading it at this point. See John Hawks for why. Sometimes interdisciplinary work sheds new light on old questions because of the ability to think-outside-of-the-box. Sometimes not so much.
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