Why do old theoretic physicists tend to rattle about the subjects they are not experts in?
This book is not as bad as those non-physics books of M. Kaku, but I managed to read only 50% of the book, and stopped when he started talking about the evolutionary drive for artistic talent. If I wish to know did humans evolved artistic talent and how, I will read the book by evolutionary biologists, not a theoretical physicist.
I loved his physics books, those were amazing and wonderful, but this divagation into several subjects that he's not an expert on turned to be very tedious and chafing with their lack of true scientific rigor. It's like he thought that since he's an expert in complex math that he can understand and master philosophy, biology, anthropology, sociology, theology, psychology, consciousness, etc.
All this meandering produced a very poor book, written on the level of the articles for popularistic magazines.
A big disappointment all over.