Genesis : the deep origin of societies

Record details

ISBN: 1980036837
ISBN: 9781980036838
Physical Description: 1 audio disc (3 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, [2019]
Copyright: ℗2019

General Note:	Compact disc, MP3 format. In container (19 cm.). Spoken audio file. Indexed by chapter. Title from container.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrated by Jonathan Hogan.
Summary, etc.:	Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least seventeen-among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp-have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation. Whether writing about midges who "dance about like acrobats" or schools of anchovies who protectively huddle "to appear like a gigantic fish," or proposing that human society owes a debt of gratitude to "postmenopausal grandmothers" and "childless homosexuals," Genesis is a pithy yet path-breaking work of evolutionary theory, braiding twenty-first-century scientific theory with the lyrical biological and humanistic observations for which Wilson is known.
System Details Note:	MP3 format. System requirements: CD/MP3 player or PC with MP3-capable software.