An "endlessly fascinating" (Michael Ruse) work of scientific
thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson's
twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting
that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to
purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body
and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and
chemistry, Wilson demonstrates that the only way for us to fully
understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of
nonhuman species. At least seventeen of these species-among them
the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp-have been
found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation.
Braiding twenty-first- century scientific theory with the lyrical
biological and humanistic observations for which Wilson is beloved,
Genesis is "a magisterial history of social evolution, from clouds
of midges or sparrows to the grotesqueries of ant colonies" (Kirkus
Reviews, starred review).
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