Book Review: Human Nature in Utopia: Zamyatin’s We: “Human Nature in Utopia argues a startling hypothesis about utopian systems. Building a society on a completely rational model is not just a political mistake but a scientific and philosophical one. A rational society is just not what we are evolved for, so the critique of hyperrationalist societies in Brave New World (Huxley), 1984 (Orwell), and Evgenii Zamyatin’s We can be understood anew from the viewpoint of evolutionary science.” —Human Nature Review I recall being scared out of my wits by Zamyatin’s little-known dystopian novel as a high school student with, of course, no inkling of evolutionary biology.