The hero of 15 books by Lawrence Block, Scudder is a winningly smart-assed private eye who can shoot the breeze (and the bad guys) with the best of them, and has a capacity for abstractthought to boot.
Neo-Darwinian anthropologists have an explanation for this (as they do for almost everything), essentially to do with the fact that abstract logical thought was of little use on the savannah.
To exemplify these rather abstract observations with some specific companies, I thought it would be instructive to look at the Top Deals of 2007 , the annual list that is pulled together and annotated well by FierceBiotech.