A wild life indeed Wild Life: Adventures of an Evolutionary Biologist Robert Trivers (2015, Plympton Press) ISBN: 978–1938972126

nationalism fi rst, including Republican candidate for the US presidency, Donald Trump, and the leader of the French Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen. Like the Leave campaign in the UK, both are offering simplistic pseudosolutions to the complex problems of today’s world, thus offering comfort to voters who may feel left behind by the rapid changes of modern times. If Trump were to be elected US President in November, he would likely scale down efforts to limit climate change, which he has called a hoax, setting the world on a path towards climate apocalypse. So far, though, there is very little indication of what — if any — opinions he holds on other environmental and science policies. He has failed to cover them in his speeches and policy statements. Instead, he has directed attention elsewhere, shaping the public conversation such that the bugbears of the angry, leftbehind voters he addresses, including immigration, security and national pride, are already much more present in the electoral campaigns than the environmental issues that will in the long term be much more dangerous to voters’ livelihoods. While many cling to the hope that Trump cannot possibly win the election, this hardly seems certain. After all, most people in the UK also thought that the Leave campaign could not win, until it did. Similarly, Marine Le Pen is currently on track to make it into the run-off of the presidential election next May, but considered unlikely to win. The likely scenario would be an echo of the 2002