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, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for
us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary
histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that
at least seventeen-among them the African naked mole rat and the
sponge- dwelling shrimp-have been found to have advanced societies
based on altruism and cooperation. Whether writing about midges who
"dance about like acrobats" or schools of anchovies who
protectively huddle "to appear like a gigantic fish," or proposing
that human society owes a debt of gratitude to "postmenopausal
grandmothers" and "childless homosexuals," Genesis is a pithy yet
path-breaking work of evolutionary theory, braiding
twenty-first-century scientific theory with the lyrical biological
and humanistic observations for which Wilson is known.
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