I hate to say it, but i knew something like this would happen. i bought this book more than a decade ago back when my interests truly bent in this form of history---but now evolutionary history isn't necessarily my jam anymore. the fact that i own this book puts a damper in the feeling of dropping it, whereas if this had been a library book, i'd be careless and not care so much. 

but. such things do happen, and i can't fault past me for not reading it sooner.