The Murderer Next Door

I have just begun reading a book titled The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill by David Buss. This book is-from what I know-trying to explain that killers aren't typically what we think of. That being, most murderers are not someone who has been locked up before, because they are such a 'hardened' criminal. Actually, Buss argues that most people who commit murder are what most people would call 'normal', but through certain circumstances and traits we as humans evolved into, we commit a murder.

But who is David Buss, why does he matter and what has he done? Well, David Buss earned a Ph.D. in psychology at Berkeley and is currently a professor of Psychology at The University of Texas in Austin, but he has been an assistant professor at Harvard for four years and a professor at the University of Michigan for eleven years. He has written many papers and some books, and he has received awards for his writings-so this guy is definitely the real deal. So, I'll be giving updates periodically on what he's talking about in the book and what I think about his it.