Social Conquest of Earth

Name: Social Conquest of Earth
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ISBN: 9780871404138

ISBN-10: 0871404133

ISBN-13: 9780871404138

Edition: 2012

Authors: Edward O. Wilson

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Where did we come from? Whatare we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, oneof our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamentalquestions of religion, philosophy, and science while overturning the famoustheory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first (Discover magazine). Refashioning the story of human evolutionin a work that is certain to generate headlines, Wilson draws on his remarkableknowledge of biology and social behavior to show that group selection, not kinselection, is the primary driving force of human evolution. He proves thathistory makes no sense without prehistory, and prehistory makes no…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 4/9/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.342
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