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"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.
Ridley, Matt
MATT RIDLEY é autor de livros provocativos sobre evolução, genética e sociedade. Mora na Inglaterra com a esposa, a neurocientista e professora Anya Hurlbert, e dois filhos. Antes de se tornar escritor e empresário, trabalhou para o The Economist por nove anos como editor de ciência, correspondente e editor em Washington. Já recebeu prêmios como Hayek Prize em 2011 e Julian Simon Award em 2012. Atualmente ele escreve em uma coluna semanal no The Times e The Wall Street Journal e serviu no comitê seleto de ciência e tecnologia de 2014 a 2017. Ridley também é membro da Câmara dos Lordes no Reino Unido. |
| ISBN | 9780062296016 |
| Autor(a) | Ridley, Matt |
| Editora | Harper Perennial |
| Ano de edição | 2016 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 20,30 X 13,50 |
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