The Evolution Of Everything

Author : Matt Ridley
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062296027
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Everything written by Matt Ridley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mr. Ridley’s best and most important work to date…there is something profoundly democratic and egalitarian—even anti-elitist—in this bottom-up approach: Everyone can have a role in bringing about change.” —Wall Street Journal The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world Human society evolves. Change in technology, language, morality, and society is incremental, inexorable, gradual, and spontaneous. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next, and it largely happens by trial and error—a version of natural selection. Much of the human world is the result of human action but not of human design: it emerges from the interactions of millions, not from the plans of a few. Drawing on fascinating evidence from science, economics, history, politics, and philosophy, Matt Ridley demolishes conventional assumptions that the great events and trends of our day are dictated by those on high. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the bottom up. The Industrial Revolution, cell phones, the rise of Asia, and the Internet were never planned; they happened. Languages emerged and evolved by a form of natural selection, as did common law. Torture, racism, slavery, and pedophilia—all once widely regarded as acceptable—are now seen as immoral despite the decline of religion in recent decades. In this wide-ranging, erudite book, Ridley brilliantly makes the case for evolution, rather than design, as the force that has shaped much of our culture, our technology, our minds, and that even now is shaping our future.

Author : Adrian Bejan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466891343
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Physics of Life written by Adrian Bejan and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Physics of Life explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant issues such as sustainability, water and food supply, fuel, and economy, to critique the state in which the world understands positions of power and freedom. Breaking down concepts such as desire and power, sports health and culture, the state of economy, water and energy, politics and distribution, Bejan uses the language of physics to explain how each system works in order to clarify the meaning of evolution in its broadest scientific sense, moving the reader towards a better understanding of the world's systems and the natural evolution of cultural and political development. The Physics of Life argues that the evolution phenomenon is much broader and older than the evolutionary designs that constitute the biosphere, empowering readers with a new view of the globe and the future, revealing that the urge to have better ideas has the same physical effect as the urge to have better laws and better government. This is evolution explained loudly but also elegantly, forging a path that flows sustainability.

Author : QuickRead
Publisher : QuickRead.com
ISBN 13 :
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Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley (Summary) written by QuickRead and published by QuickRead.com. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want more free book summaries like this? Download our app for free at https://www.QuickRead.com/App and get access to hundreds of free book and audiobook summaries. How New Ideas Emerge. One of the biggest, most dangerous myths that we believe today is that we have full command and control of our world. But have you ever considered that our world goes through evolution? Or that our world evolves on its own? In fact, evolution doesn’t apply just to biology anymore, there is an evolution of everything. The changes we experience in technology, language, morality, and society are gradual, incremental, and even spontaneous. The changes follow a narrative, going from one stage to the next without an end goal in mind. You see, we traditionally believe that many of the greatest achievements in the world started from the top-down, that is, changes came from great leaders and minds who aimed to make a difference. But that is not necessarily true. Instead, our world has evolved from the bottom-up and achievements such as the Industrial Revolution, cell phones, and the creation of the Internet were never planned, they simply happened. Through The Evolution of Everything, Author Matt Ridley argues that evolution can explain just about every change we have experienced in society. As you read, you’ll learn how DNA and language are similar, how money became monopolized by the government, and how our traditional views on education should no longer be accepted.

Author : Denise D. Cummins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195110531
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Mind written by Denise D. Cummins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Evolution of Mind, outstanding figures on the cutting edge of evolutionary psychology follow clues provided by current neuroscientific evidence to illuminate many puzzling questions of human cognitive evolution. With contributions from psychologists, ethologists, anthropologists, and philosophers, the book offers a broad range of approaches to explore the mysteries of the mind's evolution - from investigating the biological functions of human cognition to drawing comparisons between human and animal cognitive abilities.

Author : Graham Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019871257X
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Life written by Graham Bell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Evolution of Life stands alone amongst the major textbooks by focusing on key principles to offer a truly accessible, unintimidating treatment of evolutionary biology.

Author : Anna Claybourne
Publisher : Laurence King
ISBN 13 : 9781786276841
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Everything in 32 Pages written by Anna Claybourne and published by Laurence King. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Big Bang and the creation of the stars, through the evolution of plants and animals, the dawn of the dinosaurs, and on toward the first humans, early civilizations, empires, and technology, this incredible book will take you through the history of, well, everything! Fourteen exciting double-page spreads draw the reader into a world of discovery. Each fascinating scene depicts a key development in life on earth, illustrated in a colorful and engaging way and packed with interesting facts and figures.

Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721106
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dawn of Everything written by David Graeber and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike—either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action. Includes Black-and-White Illustrations

Author : Melvin Konner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674045668
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Childhood written by Melvin Konner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development which examines both the cross-cultural and universal characteristics of our growth from infancy to adolescence.

Author : Ken Wilber
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590304500
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Everything written by Ken Wilber and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, this account examines the course of evolution as the unfolding manifestation of Spirit, from matter to life to mind, including the higher stages of spiritual development where Spirit becomes conscious of itself.

Author : Matt Ridley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 000754250X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Everything: How Small Changes Transform Our World written by Matt Ridley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make ... it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.’