Social Conquest of Earth

Name: Social Conquest of Earth
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ISBN: 9780871403636

ISBN-10: 0871403633

ISBN-13: 9780871403636

Edition: 2013

Authors: Edward O. Wilson

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Sparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends “the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover). Refashioning the story of human evolution, Wilson draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to demonstrate that group selection, not kin selection, is the premier driving force of human evolution. In a work that James D. Watson calls “a monumental exploration of the biological origins of the human condition,” Wilson explains how our innate drive to belong to a group is both a “great blessing and a terrible curse” (Smithsonian). Demonstrating that the sources of morality, religion, and the…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 0.39" wide x 0.79" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1929. He is currently Pellegrino University Research Professor & Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is on the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy, Conservation International & the American Museum of Natural History. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.



Prologue



Why Does Advanced Social Life Exist?



The Human Condition



Where Do We Come From?



The Two Paths to Conquest



The Approach



The Arrival



Threading the Evolutionary Maze



The Creative Forces



Tribalism Is a Fundamental Human Trait



War as Humanity's Hereditary Curse



The Breakout



The Creative Explosion



The Sprint to Civilization



How Social Insects Conquered the Invertebrate World



The Invention of Eusociality



Inventions That Advanced the Social Insects



The Forces of Social Evolution



The Scientific Dilemma of Rarity



Insect Altruism and Eusociality Explained



Insects Take the Giant Leap



How Natural Selection Creates Social Instincts



The Forces of Social Evolution



The Emergence of a New Theory of Eusociality



What Are We?



What Is Human Nature?



How Culture Evolved



The Origins of Language



The Evolution of Cultural Variation



The Origins of Morality and Honor



The Origins of Religion



The Origins of the Creative Arts



Where Are We Going?



A New Enlightenment


Acknowledgments


References


Index