Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies - Couverture souple

Wilson, Edward O

 
9781631496677: Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1631496670 ISBN 13 : 9781631496677
Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020

Synopsis

“The book bursts to life with [Wilson’s] observations of nature, from fire ants and social spiders to starlings.”-Aarathi Prasad, New York Times Book Review

An “endlessly fascinating” (Michael Ruse) work of scientific thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson’s twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Wilson demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. At least seventeen of these species-among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp-have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation. Braiding twenty-first- century scientific theory with the lyrical biological and humanistic observations for which Wilson is beloved, Genesis is “a magisterial history of social evolution, from clouds of midges or sparrows to the grotesqueries of ant colonies” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
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À propos de l?auteur

Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) was the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson was a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lived with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

“The book bursts to life with [Wilson’s] observations of nature, from fire ants and social spiders to starlings.”-Aarathi Prasad, New York Times Book Review

An “endlessly fascinating” (Michael Ruse) work of scientific thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson’s twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Wilson demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. At least seventeen of these species-among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp-have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation. Braiding twenty-first- century scientific theory with the lyrical biological and humanistic observations for which Wilson is beloved, Genesis is “a magisterial history of social evolution, from clouds of midges or sparrows to the grotesqueries of ant colonies” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
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Éditeur
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1631496670
ISBN 13 
9781631496677
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
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