Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679758945)

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. Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright's narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, from stone-age villages to the World Trade Organization, uncovering such surprises as the benefits of barbarian hordes and the useful stability of feudalism. Here is history endowed with moral significance-a way of looking at our biological and cultural evolution that suggests, refreshingly, that human morality has improved over time, and that our instinct to discover meaning may itself serve a higher purpose. Insightful, witty, profound, Nonzero offers breathtaking implications for what we believe and how we adapt to technology's ongoing transformation of the world.

Author: Robert Wright
ISBN-10: 0679758941
ISBN-13: 9780679758945
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 01/09/2001
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/07/2001 pg. 28
Entertainment Weekly 01/26/2001 pg. 95
Newsweek 06/08/2009 pg. 30