The Social Conquest of Earth - Couverture souple

Wilson, Edward O.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0871403633 ISBN 13 : 9780871403636

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2013

Synopsis

"A clear analysis of the factors that give rise to altruism..." Clive Cookson, Summer Books, The Financial Times

In asking where we came from, what we are and where we are going, Edward O. Wilson directly addresses three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy and science. Refashioning the story of human evolution, he draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behaviour to show that group selection, not kin selection, is the primary driving force of human evolution. He proves that history makes no sense without prehistory and prehistory makes no sense without biology. Demonstrating that the sources of morality, religion and the creative arts are fundamentally biological in nature, Wilson presents us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition and why it resulted in our domination of the Earth's biosphere.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward O. Wilson, a professor emeritus at Harvard University, is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ants and the bestselling novel Anthill (ISBN 978 0 393 33970 3). Also available: The Superorganism (ISBN 978 0 393 06704 0) and From So Simple a Beginning (ISBN 978 0 393 06134 5).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0871403633
• ISBN 13: 9780871403636
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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