http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/books/review/Berreby-t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/books/review/Berreby-t.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2
Came across this set of links thanks to Mockingbird. The critique of the proposal that genocide is based on nature rather than nature is a salient one, that proposing that we are all inclined to reduce people to essential immutable essence is simply wrong both on historical and conceptual grounds. In religious terms a concept like conversion, let alone sanctification, works on the assumption that it both is possible and positively verifiable that humans can and do change. It is also possible for someone to be considered less than human, then more than human, then less than human based on criteria selected which define what truly human means.
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