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SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH CL

ISBN: 9780871404138 | 0871404133
Edition: 00
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 3/17/2012

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SummaryTable of Contents
Where did we come from? Whatare we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, oneof our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamentalquestions of religion, philosophy, and science while overturning the famoustheory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first (Discover magazine). Refashioning the story of human evolutionin a work that is certain to generate headlines, Wilson draws on his remarkableknowledge of biology and social behavior to show that group selection, not kins... MORE
Prologuep. 1
Why Does Advanced Social Life Exist?
The Human Conditionp. 7
Where Do We Come From?
The Two Paths to Conquestp. 13
The Approachp. 21
The Arrivalp. 33
Threading the Evolutionary Mazep. 45
The Creative Forcesp. 49
Tribalism Is a Fundamental Human Traitp. 57
War as... MOREp. 62
The Breakoutp. 77
The Creative Explosionp. 85
The Sprint to Civilizationp. 97
How Social Insects Conquered the Invertebrate World
The Invention of Eusocialityp. 109
Inventions That Advanced the Social Insectsp. 120
The Forces of Social Evolution
The Scientific Dilemma of Rarityp. 133
Insect Altruism and Eusociality Explainedp. 139
Insects Take the Giant Leapp. 148
How Natural Selection Creates Social Instinctsp. 158
The Forces of Social Evolutionp. 166
The Emergence of a New Theory of Eusocialityp. 183
What Are We?
What Is Human Nature?p. 191
How Culture Evolvedp. 212
The Origins of Languagep. 225
The Evolution of Cultural Variationp. 236
The Origins of Morality and Honorp. 241
The Origins of Religionp. 255
The Origins of the Creative Artsp. 268
Where Are We Going?
A New Enlightenmentp. 287
Acknowledgmentsp. 301
Referencesp. 303
Indexp. 327
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