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I have written a book, The Strategic Intelligence of Trust, available as a paperback and Kindle edition at Amazon. This book will hopefully present a new understanding of life as an evolutionary force of nature. It's my philosophical look at some of the latest science where biological evolution is concerned. With over 40 years of experience as a professional investigator of human foibles, I've provided support for some relatively, if not radically, new ideas that concern the way we, and other life forms, have used our strategies over the last few billion years to both acquire and serve an extremely odd diversity of conflicting purposes. The reader should be aware however of some central themes that won't sit well with either the Creationists or the staunch devotees of neoDarwinian selection theories. I want to demonstrate, first, that all evolution is the proximate result of the entity involved reacting strategically to its experience. And second, that, *In the pragmatic way of thinking in terms of conceivable practical implications, every thing has a purpose, and its purpose is the first thing that we should try to note about it.* Charles Sanders Peirce. if you can handle that, you should want to read this book. If you can't, you shouldn't.

By profession I'm an investigator, and after 40 years working first for the Federal Government and then in private practice, I've become somewhat of a practical authority on the mechanisms of trust and deception. It helped that I'd managed (with the GI bill) to squeak out a B.A. at UC Berkeley in 1949, majoring in Philosophy, Psychology and English. And I'd long wanted to do some serious writing on the these subjects, but hadn't quite hit upon the hypothesis that blended these apparently opposing concepts into one. In the meantime, I wrote a few private essays on this and that, and a slew of notes on the related subject of biological evolution - which at the time I was somewhat of an amateur about. And still am, except over the last few years I've taught myself what I think is now worth writing about in concert with the subject of the evolution of trust.