Drawing on advances in social science, evolutionary biology,
genetics, neuroscience and network science, Blueprint shows how and
why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are
united by our common humanity. For too long, scientists have
focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity
for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural
selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features,
including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and
learning. Beneath all our inventions - our tools, farms, machines,
cities, nations - we carry with us innate proclivities to make a
good society. In Blueprint, Nicholas A. Christakis introduces the
compelling idea that our genes affect not only our bodies and
behaviors, but also the ways in which we make societies, ones that
are surprisingly similar worldwide. With many vivid examples --
including diverse historical and contemporary cultures, communities
formed in the wake of shipwrecks, commune dwellers seeking utopia,
online groups thrown together by design or involving artificially
intelligent bots and even the tender and complex social
arrangements of elephants and dolphins that so resemble our own -
Christakis shows that, despite a human history replete with
violence, we cannot escape our social blueprint for goodness. In a
world of increasing political and economic polarisation, it's
tempting to ignore the positive role of our evolutionary past. But
by exploring the ancient roots of goodness in civilisation,
Blueprint shows that our genes have shaped societies for our
welfare and that, in a feedback loop stretching back many thousands
of years, societies have shaped and are still shaping, our genes
today.
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