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Volume 2 · Part II · 2019

Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies

Wilson, Edward O.

Published 2019
Author(s) Wilson, Edward O.
LC Class QL751 .W55 2019
LCCN 2018050101

Summary

Wilson opens by framing the deepest questions of human existence—what we are and what created us—as answerable, at last, through evolutionary biology. He presents Genesis as a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, shorn of religious and political dogma, that seeks the deep origin of human society.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1. The Question of a Meaningful Existence (opening)
  • Chapter 2. The Great Transitions of Evolution
  • Chapter 3. The Great Transitions Dilemma and How It Was Solved
  • Chapter 4. The Relentless Rise of Cooperation (levels of social organization)
  • Chapter 5. The Invention of Eusociality (the social insects)
  • Chapter 6. Group Selection and the Forces of Social Evolution
  • Chapter 7. The Human Story
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