- Science, Nonfiction, Human evolution, Social evolution
In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history--and discerning where history will lead us next.In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern.
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Epic, spare, classical in form and warm.
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- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Robert Wright
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 447
- Publisher
- Abacus, Vintage, Pantheon
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679442523
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