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- catalog abstract ""At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded - and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that 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 toward deeper and vaster social complexity." "Wright argues that a coolly scientific appraisal of humanity's three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offer political guidance for the future. Nonzero will change the way people think about the human prospect."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12560937.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded - and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that 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 toward deeper and vaster social complexity." "Wright argues that a coolly scientific appraisal of humanity's three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offer political guidance for the future. Nonzero will change the way people think about the human prospect."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-418) and index.".
- catalog description "The ladder of cultural evolution -- The way we were -- Add technology and bake for five millennia -- The invisible brain -- War: what is it good for? -- The inevitability of agriculture -- The age of chiefdoms -- The second information revolution -- Civilization and so on -- Our friends the barbarians -- Dark Ages -- The inscrutable Orient -- Modern times -- And here we are -- New world order -- Degrees of freedom -- The cosmic context -- The rise of biological non-zero-sumness -- Why life is so complex -- The last adaptation -- Non-crazy questions -- You call this a god?".
- catalog extent "xii, 435 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0679758941 :".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Vintage Books,".
- catalog subject "GN360 .W75 2001b".
- catalog subject "History.".
- catalog subject "Human evolution.".
- catalog subject "Social evolution.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The ladder of cultural evolution -- The way we were -- Add technology and bake for five millennia -- The invisible brain -- War: what is it good for? -- The inevitability of agriculture -- The age of chiefdoms -- The second information revolution -- Civilization and so on -- Our friends the barbarians -- Dark Ages -- The inscrutable Orient -- Modern times -- And here we are -- New world order -- Degrees of freedom -- The cosmic context -- The rise of biological non-zero-sumness -- Why life is so complex -- The last adaptation -- Non-crazy questions -- You call this a god?".
- catalog title "Nonzero : the logic of human destiny / Robert Wright.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".