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Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
by Edward O. Wilson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1631495542
- ISBN 13
- 9781631495540
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Liveright, 2019. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page. This unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light creases to spine tail. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Black and white illustrations by Debby Cotter Kaspari. The dust jacket is unclipped ($23.95) with a faint crinkle to spine tail and bottom of the back flap. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 153 pages. 5½ x 8¾" tall.
Edward O. Wilson's 21st-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that the human body and mind have a physical base that is obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Wilson demonstrates that the only way 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 21st-century scientific theory with the lyrical biological and humanistic observations for which Wilson is known, "Genesis" is "a magisterial history of social evolution, from clouds of midges or sparrows to the grotesqueries of ant colonies".
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3794
- Title
- Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
- Author
- Edward O. Wilson
- Illustrator
- Debby Cotter Kaspari
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1631495542
- ISBN 13
- 9781631495540
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 153
- Size
- 5.5 x 8.75
- Keywords
- science, evolution, environment, biology, human behavior
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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