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Anthropology is starting to solve age-old philosophical questions. These questions were never going to be solved by philosophers, so I suppose it's just as well. Unfortunately, this is like saying "the true enemy of science isn't religion -- it's the common facets of many religions." Doesn't mean anything.Since I have wearied of the Richard Dawkins school of religion-bashing, in which belief is equated with dim-wittedness, I can only applaud de Waal's approach, as when he writes, "The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms ... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma."