The evolution of everything: how new ideas emerge
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch...the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than evolution, for direction rather than emergence. Drawing on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics and philosophy, Matt Ridley's wide-ranging, highly opinionated opus demolishes conventional assumptions that major scientific and social imperatives are dictated by those on high, whether in government, business, academia, or morality. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the bottom up. Patterns emerge, trends evolve. Just as skeins of geese form Vs in the sky without meaning to, and termites build mud cathedrals without architects, so brains take shape without brain-makers, learning can happen without teaching and morality changes without a plan.Although we neglect, defy and ignore them, bottom-up trends shape the world. The growth of technology, the sanitation-driven health revolution, the quadrupling of farm yields so that more land can be released for nature...these were largely emergent phenomena, as were the Internet, the mobile phone revolution, and the rise of Asia. Ridley demolishes the arguments for design and effectively makes the case for evolution in the universe, morality, genes, the economy, culture, technology, the mind, personality, population, education, history, government, God, money, and the future.As compelling as it is controversial, authoritative as it is ambitious, Ridley's stunning perspective will revolutionize the way we think about our world and how it works"... |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-341) and index |
| Beschreibung: | 360 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780062296009 9780062296016 |
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Prologue: The General Theory of Evolution 1
1 The Evolution of the Universe 7
2 The Evolution of Morality 21
3 The Evolution of Life 37
4 The Evolution of Genes 59
5 The Evolution of Culture 76
6 The Evolution of the Economy 96
7 The Evolution of Technology 118
8 The Evolution of the Mind 140
9 The Evolution of Personality 155
10 The Evolution of Education 174
11 The Evolution of Population 193
12 The Evolution of Leadership 215
13 The Evolution of Government 235
14 The Evolution of Religion 256
15 The Evolution of Money 277
16 The Evolution of the Internet 299
Epilogue: The Evolution of the Future 317
Acknowledgements
Sources and Further Reading
Index
321
323
343
culture, our technology, our minds, and that even now is
shap ing our future.
As compelling as it is controversial, as authoritative as
it is ambitious, Ridleys deeply thought-provoking book will
change the way we think about the world and how it works.
MATT RIDLEY is the award-winning, bestselling
author of several books, including The Rational Optimist:
Ho lv Prosperity Evolves; Genome: The Autobiography
of a Species in Chapters; and The Red, Queen: Sex
and the Evolution of Human Nature. His books have
sold more than one million copies in thirty languages
worldwide. He writes regularly for The Times (London)
and The Wall Street Journal, and is a member of the
House of Lords. He lives in England.
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of The Rational Optinzist and Genome
returns with a fascinating argument
for evolution that definitively dispels a
dangerous, widespread myth: that we can
command and control our world.
mm an 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; it creeps
rather than jumps; it has its own spontaneous momentum
rather than being driven from outside; it has no goal or
end in mind; 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, whether in government, business, academia, or
organized religion. On the contrary, our most important
achievements develop from the bottom up. Just as skeins
of geese form Vs in the shy without meaning to and ter-
mites build mud cathedrals without architects, so brains
take shape without brain-makers, learning happens
without teaching, and morality changes for no reason
other than the prevailing fashion. Although we neglect,
defy, and ignore them, bottom-up trends shape the world.
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 deeline of religion
i n recent decades. In this wide-ranging and erudite book,
Ridley brilliantly makes the case for evolution, rather
th an design, as the force that has shaped much of our
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