This piece, discussing a recent issue of [*American Anthropologist*](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01271.x/abstract), taps Conrad Kottak’s thoughts on how the changing situation of humans has affected their nature. Conrad says he worries a lot about “the spread of selfishness, the erosion of community and civility…”

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