Non Zero and Next Non-fiction Selection Recommendations?

Six interesting people gathered in the main room of the Society to discuss NonZero (see entry below.) It never fails to amaze me how the folks attracted to Ethical and to these kinds of events are the most interesting people I've met. Everyone brimmed with ideas that related to Wright's thesis for-and-against. Wonderful intellectual experience.

We need to pick the next book. At one participant's suggestion, I asked Joe Chuman, our ECS Bergen leader, to help us come up with a non-fiction book that we would enjoy and not tax our amateur level. Alternately we could do a few chapters of a more scholarly work. Moral Man in Immoral Society has always tempted me, but it looks too imposing without the help of a group to get me through!

Suggestions?

By the way, I found this fascinating and tangentially related to Non-zero:


"Richard Wrangham, a primatologist at Harvard, has proposed that people are a domesticated form of ape, the domestication having been self-administered as human societies penalized or ostracized individuals who were too aggressive.
Dr. Paabo said that if Mr. Albert identified the genes responsible for domestication in rats, “we would also look at those genes in humans and apes to see if they might be involved in human evolution.”
Human self-domestication, if it occurred, would probably not have exactly the same genetic basis as tameness in animals. But Mr. Albert said that if he could pinpoint the genetic difference between the tame and ferocious rats, he would compare the chimp genome and the human genome to see if they showed a similar difference.
One possibility is that a handful of genes — perhaps even just one — underlie all the changes seen in domestication. A structure in the embryo of all vertebrates, known as the neural crest, is the source of cells that constitute much of the face, skull and pigment cells, and many parts of the peripheral nervous system and endocrine system. If the genes in the neural crest cells were delayed just a little in coming into action, a whole range of tissues could be affected, including the maturation of the adrenal glands that underlies the first fear response of young animals, Dr. Fitch has written."