NonZero
Subtitle: the logic of human destiny
By: Robert Wright.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
Subjects: Social evolution; Human evolution; History
Description: "At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded - and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless."--BOOK JACKET.

"Ingeniously employing game theory - the logic of "zero-sum" and "non-zero-sum" games - Wright isolates the impetus behind life's basic direction; the impetus that, via biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals and then, via cultural evolution, pushed the human species toward deeper and vaster social complexity."--BOOK JACKET.

"Wright argues that a coolly scientific appraisal of humanity's three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offer political guidance for the future. Nonzero will change the way people think about the human prospect."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-418) and index.