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First edition. |
| Description |
153 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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Author: Gender group: gdr Men lcdgt |
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Illustrator: Gender group: gdr Women lcdgt |
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Nationality/regional group: nat Americans lcdgt |
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Author: Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members lcdgt |
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Author: Occupational/field of activity group: occ Biologists lcdgt |
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Illustrator: Occupational/field of activity group: occ Artists lcdgt |
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Author: Social group: soc Retirees lcdgt |
| Summary |
Studying animal behavior to understand human behavior. |
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"For eons, humanity's greatest minds--philosophers, theologians, and scientists--have lacked confirmable answers to the questions that define and explain the meaning of human existence: what we are and what created us. In [this book], Edward O. Wilson, examining evolutionary history further back than he has ever done before, delivers a revelatory account of the deep origins of society. 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 argues that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to appreciate the long, complicated evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least seventeen--among them the naked African mole rat and sponge-dwelling shrimp--have developed advanced societies based on similar levels of altruism and cooperation found among humans. Just as Darwin, in his 1871 Descent of Man, proposed humanity's origins through the study of apes and human behavior, Wilson here synthesizes the most updated research in evolutionary science to offer a pithy yet path-breaking work of evolutionary theory. In Genesis, Wilson eloquently braids twenty-first-century scientific research with the lyrical biological and humanistic observations for which he is known and admired."-- Inside dust jacket flap.. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-140) and index. |
| Contents |
The search for genesis -- The great transitions of evolution -- The great transitions dilemma and how it was solved -- Tracking social evolution through the ages -- The final steps to eusociality -- Group selection -- The human story. |
| Summary |
Wilson asserts 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. Here he demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species and recognize that many have developed advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation. -- Adapted from inside dust jacket flap. |
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Animal behavior.
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Behavior evolution.
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Behavior genetics.
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Social behavior in animals.
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Animal societies.
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Social behavior in animals. (OCoLC)fst01122278
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Animal behavior. (OCoLC)fst00809079
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Behavior evolution. (OCoLC)fst00829910
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Animal societies. (OCoLC)fst00809393
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Behavior genetics. (OCoLC)fst00829913
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| Added Author |
Kaspari, Debby Cotter, illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Deep origin of societies |
| ISBN |
9781631495540 (hardcover) |
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1631495542 (hardcover) |
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9781631496677 (paperback) |
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1631496670 (paperback) |
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