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Genesis - The Deep Origin of Societies (Paperback)
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Genesis - The Deep Origin of Societies (Paperback)
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'With Genesis, Wilson inspires awe ... His message is that
selection has shaped a society that is characterized by cooperation
and division of labour' Nature Of all species that have ever
existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of intelligence
and social organisation: us. Why? In Genesis, celebrated biologist
Edward O. Wilson traces the great transitions of evolution, from
the origin of life to the invention of sexual reproduction to the
development of language itself. The only way for us to fully
understand human behaviour, Wilson argues, is to study the
evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, he
demonstrates that at least seventeen - from the African naked mole
rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp to one of the oldest species on
earth, the termite - have been found to have advanced societies
based on altruism, cooperation and the division of labour. These
rare eusocial species form the prehistory to our human social
patterns, even, according to Wilson, suggesting the possible
biological benefits of homosexuality and elderly grandmothers.
Whether writing about midges who dance about like acrobats, schools
of anchovies who protectively huddle to appear like a gigantic fish
or well-organised flocks becoming potentially immortal, Genesis is
a pathbreaking work of evolutionary theory filled with lyrical
observations. It will make us rethink how we became who we are.
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