Author: Lionel Tiger

Lionel Tiger is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and the author of Men in Groups, The Pursuit of Pleasure, and Modern Love. This excerpt is reprinted with permission from Lionel Tiger, Optimism: The Biology of Hope (New York: Kodansha International, 1999).

The Past of an Illusion
 Free Inquiry Volume 19, No. 3
Summer 1999
 Lionel Tiger
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