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Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
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Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies Hardcover - 2019

by Edward O. Wilson

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Liveright, 2019. Hardcover. Used Like New/New. Used like new hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Publisher's overstock mark on the top of the text block. Includes index and line drawings. 153 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. From the publisher, "Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, one shorn of 'religious and political dogma,' Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and synthesis. 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, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least seventeen―among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge- dwelling shrimp―have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation. Whether writing about midges who 'dance about like acrobats' or schools of anchovies who protectively huddle 'to appear like a gigantic fish,' or proposing that human society owes a debt of gratitude to 'postmenopausal grandmothers' and 'childless homosexuals,' Genesis is a pithy yet path-breaking work of evolutionary theory, braiding twenty-first-century scientific theory with the lyrical biological and humanistic observations for which Wilson is known.
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  • Title Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
  • Author Edward O. Wilson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Liveright
  • Date 2019
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2762
  • ISBN 9781631495540 / 1631495542
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Behavior genetics, Behavior evolution
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018050101
  • Dewey Decimal Code 591.5

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2019, Page 24
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2018, Page 115
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2019, Page 110
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/12/2018, Page 0