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• Title:The evolution of everything : how new ideas emerge / Matt Ridley.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ridley, Matt, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: GN360 .R525 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Evolution.
  Diffusion of innovations.
  Technology and civilization.
  Civilization, Modern.
  
• Medical Subjects: Evolution.
  
• Edition:First U.S. edition.
  
• Description:360 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"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"-- Provided by publisher.
  "A book that makes the case for evolution over design and skewers a widespread but dangerous myth: that we have ultimate control over our world"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-341) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780062296009 (hardcover)
  0062296000 (hardcover)
  9780062296016 (softcover)
  0062296019 (softcover)
  9780062296023 (ebook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Evolution of the Universe
  2. Evolution of Morality
  3. Evolution of Life
  4. Evolution of Genes
  5. Evolution of Culture
  6. Evolution of the Economy
  7. Evolution of Technology
  8. Evolution of the Mind
  9. Evolution of Personality
  10. Evolution of Education
  11. Evolution of Population
  12. Evolution of Leadership
  13. Evolution of Government
  14. Evolution of Religion
  15. Evolution of Money
  16. Evolution of the Internet.