ln Spiritual Evolution, Harvard professor George Vaillant, M.D., lays out a brilliant defense of man's inherent spirituality. He shows that our spirituality resides in our uniquely human brain design and in our innate capacity for emotions like love, hope, joy, forgiveness, and compassion, which are located in a different part of the brain than dogmatic religious belief. Evolution has made us spiritual creatures over time, he writes, and we are destined to become even more so, Drawing on a range of psychological research and neuroscience, as well as on history and literature, Spiritual Evolution is at once a work of scientific argument and a lyrical meditation on what it means to be human. lt will restore our belief in faith as an essential human striving.