Nonzero : History, Evolution & Human Cooperation
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0349113343
ISBN-13
9780349113340
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint
Abacus
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 6th, 2001
Print length
448 Pages
Weight
322 grams
Dimensions
19.70 x 12.80 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
Game theoryPopular scienceEvolution
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*A controversial but optimistic book about humanity's increasing co-operation and our technological future
In a book sure to stir argument for years to come, Robert Wright challen+ges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing game theory - the logic of ''zero-sum'' and ''non-zero-sum'' games - Wright isolates the impetus behind life''s basic direction: the impetus that, via biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals, and then via cultural evolution, pushed the human species towards deeper and vaster social complexity. In this view, the coming of today''s independent global society was ''in the cards'' - not quite inevitable, but, as Wright puts it, ''so probable as to inspire wonder''. In a narrative of breathtaking scope and erudition, yet pungent wit, Wright takes on some of the past century''s most prominent thinkers, including Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins. Wright argues that a coolly specific appraisal of humanity''s three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offer political guidance for the future. This book will change the way people think about the human prospect.
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