Le origini profonde delle società umane

Within groups, selfish individuals win against altruists, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals.So when Benjen Stark throws a defeated Jon Snow onto his horse and sacrifices himself to an onslaught by a crazed zombie horde, it is an action that is advantageous to House Stark.

Interesting, but he uses a lot of technical jargon without needing to & often uses citations in a way that confused matters for me. His phrasing is often awkward & he's trying to fit too much information into this short of a book. His first chapter, "The Search For Genesis" was very thin, but he rea Leggi tutto

There exists within evolutionary theory a deep contradiction, one that Charles Darwin noticed back in the nineteenth century. The problem is this: how can evolution by natural selection account for altruistic behavior that benefits the group at the expense of the individual? The standard view of natu Leggi tutto

There is no reason at all this book should have been written. Everything in here is already in his other books. It's just a very quick recap of eusociality, which he explains at length and better in his earlier books. I think he fails to even make the case about deep origins of human societies, whic Leggi tutto

First, let me say that I am a great fan of E.O.Wilson. I think he's not only a great scientist, but also a deep thinker, whose influence (rightly) extends far beyond his particular field of expertise (which is ants). I wonder if there was perhaps not a bigger, more ambitious book that he envisioned, Leggi tutto

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Edward O. Wilson’s Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies ostensibly presents an evolutionary understanding of society, but it is a subtextual call for class revolution. That people appear to value groups is a problem for biologists, excepting sociobiologists like Wilson. From an evolutionary point of Leggi tutto

Gosto muito do que Wilson escreve sobre organismos e ele sem dúvida é A pessoa para escrever sobre a evolução da socialidade. Mas é uma obra curta demais e com pouca informação nova que não me compensou a leitura. Algumas semanas depois de terminar e não lembro do que fixei do livro ou qualquer liçã Leggi tutto

Genesis purports, in 125 generously margined pages of text, to depict in broad strokes the major evolutionary "transitions" in the history of life. There are five (not counting the origin of life itself), the first being the invention of eukaryotic cells and the last the invention of language. As th Leggi tutto

This is a great little book by the esteemed Harvard University biologist about genetic bases for the formation of societies across different species. Not just humans, but complex social organizations within chimpanzees, ants, wasps, bees, spiders, termites, shrimp, naked mole rats, and various bird