Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies

Wilson, Edward O.

ISBN 10: 1631496670 / ISBN 13: 9781631496677

Published by Liveright (edition Reprint), 2020

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
• Publisher: Liveright (edition Reprint)
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1631496670
• ISBN 13: 9781631496677
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Fair

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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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About the Author

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.