The Brown University Book Award is awarded to an outstanding high school or preparatory school junior who best combines academic excellence with clarity in written and spoken expression.

This year (2018-2019) the Brown University Book Award will be The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will by Kenneth R. Miller '70, Brown University Professor of Biology, Royce Family Professor for Teaching Excellence.

In The Human Instinct, Kenneth Miller rejects the idea that our biological heritage means that human thought, action, and imagination are predetermined, describing instead the trajectory that ultimately gave us reason, consciousness and free will. Equal parts natural science and philosophy, The Human Instinct is a moving and powerful celebration of what it means to be human.

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