Pros: Lots of interesting science and history and philosophy. Cons: Sometimes it doesn't seem to all work together.
The title of this book refers to non zero sum games, which are games where one player doesn't always lose what another gains. Either there is a chance that both (or all) players working together can gain, or a risk that they all can lose. This means...
Pros: strong thesis; excellent sourcing Cons: concluding chapters a reach
Robert Wright hit the big time in 1994 with The Moral Animal. It was that rarest of commodities, a serious, even important nonfiction book that sold well. In it, Wright used the emerging science of evolutionary psychology to explain the uneasy...
Pros: An interesting, thought-provoking journey through history & evolution Cons: The last few bits were unnecessary
... I had a great biology teacher, named Mr. Rubel. He taught our advanced biology course that was something substantially more than biology. It made us think about the world and its inhabitants, namely us and the other organisms, and what these things...
Pros: A stimulating theory of social evolution. Cons: A turn off to those accustomed to television
Robert Wright begins with a question we have all asked: "What is human destiny?" He briefly considers the ideas of the theologians, then moves on to demonstrate through game theory that human destiny progresses through a a predictable series of stages,...
Nonzero In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts ...
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