NonZero: the logic of human destiny

✍ Scribed by Robert Wright

• Book ID: 100280953
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 321 KB
• Edition: 1st Vintage books ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0375727817

✦ Synopsis

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...