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Title: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
Author: Robert Wright
ISBN: 9780679758945
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 448
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher : In his bestselling
The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history-and discerning where history will lead us next. In
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright’s narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, from stone-age villages to the World Trade Organization, uncovering such surprises as the benefits of barbarian hordes and the useful stability of feudalism. Here is history endowed with moral significance-a way of looking at our biological and cultural evolution that suggests, refreshingly, that human morality has improved over time, and that our instinct to discover meaning may itself serve a higher purpose. Insightful, witty, profound,
Nonzero offers breathtaking implications for what we believe and how we adapt to technology’s ongoing transformation of the world.
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