
Genesis
The Deep Origin of Societies
Edward O. Wilson(Author)
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published on 24. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-63149-667-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
WW Norton & Co
Illustrations
10 line drawings
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
132 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63149-667-7 (9781631496677)
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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.