In the book set to spark debates for many years, Robert Wright challenges the traditional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Using game theory with intelligence - the logic of 'zero-sum' and 'non-zero-sum' games - Wright identifies the driving force behind the basic direction of life: the impulse that, through biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals and, subsequently, through cultural evolution, led the human species towards deeper and more extensive social complexity. From this perspective, the advent of today's independent global society was 'in the cards' - not exactly inevitable but, as Wright puts it, 'likely enough to inspire awe'. In a narrative of rare breadth and knowledge, coupled with sharp humor, Wright tackles some of the most prominent thinkers of the past century, including Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins. Wright argues that a calm and concrete assessment of humanity's trillion-year past can offer new spiritual meaning to the present and even political guidance for the future. This book will change the way people think about the human prospect.
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- Little Brown Book Group
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- English
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- 9780349113340
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