In his bestselling The Moral Animal , Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.
In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny , Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze...
In his bestselling The Moral Animal , Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.
In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny , Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright's narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, from stone-age villages to the World Trade Organization, uncovering such surprises as the benefits of barbarian hordes and the useful stability of feudalism. Here is history endowed with moral significance–a way of looking at our biological and cultural evolution that suggests, refreshingly, that human morality has improved over time, and that our instinct to discover meaning may itself serve a higher purpose. Insightful, witty, profound, Nonzero offers breathtaking implications for what we believe and how we adapt to technology's ongoing transformation of the world.
Robert Wright is the author of Three Scientists and Their Gods and The Moral Animal, which was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the twelve best books of the year and has been published in nine languages. A recipient of the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism, Wright has published in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Time, an...
Robert Wright is the author of Three Scientists and Their Gods and The Moral Animal, which was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the twelve best books of the year and has been published in nine languages. A recipient of the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism, Wright has published in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Time, and Slate. He was previously a senior editor at The New Republic and The Sciences and now runs the Web site nonzero.org. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two daughters.
写得很好的一本书。与斯图尔特的演化朝更大的复杂性、智能和最终的人类全球一体化方向进展一样，以复述人类历史为基础，它详尽阐述了一个类似的主题。——弗朗西斯•海拉恩 《非零——人类命运的逻辑》（Non-Zero. The Logic of Human Destiny） (Pantheon Books, 2000)
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上海人民出版社2003版
陈钢
新华出版社2019版
左其盛
中信出版社2013版
当时是酸少爷
上海人民出版社2003版
王威廉
上海人民出版社2003版
目标170
上海人民出版社2003版
杨友三
上海人民出版社2003版
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新华出版社2019版
0 有用 曾小明 2010-02-26 21:39:34
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0 有用 Junchen 2012-01-30 02:53:02
这本书不如moral animal来得震撼人心。合作博弈远远比Robert想象地要复杂，用简化版的合作博弈来纵贯人类历史，用生物学的模型来硬套人类社会，力不从心是难免的。因此，建议先读最后关于合作进化的生物学环节（非常具有启发性），然后就能理解为什么Robert在前面的解释了。