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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Wright, Robert
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679758941
- ISBN 13
- 9780679758945
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About This Item
Vintage, 2001-01-09. Paperback. Good. 5x0x7.
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 meaning may itself serve a higher purpose. Insightful, witty, profound, Nonzero offers breathtaking implications for what we believe and how we adapt to technology's ongoing transformation of the world.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Gulf Coast Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0679758941-3-21922310
- Title
- Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
- Author
- Wright, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679758941
- ISBN 13
- 9780679758945
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2001-01-09
- Size
- 5x0x7
- X weight
- 12 oz
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