The Evolution of Everything

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Sinopsis

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.

Capítulos

  • 001_The Evolution Of Everything_introharper

    Duración: 08s
  • 002_The Evolution Of Everything_Prologue

    Duración: 13min
  • 003_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_01

    Duración: 34min
  • 004_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_02

    Duración: 38min
  • 005_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_03

    Duración: 53min
  • 006_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_04

    Duración: 42min
  • 007_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_05

    Duración: 50min
  • 008_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_06

    Duración: 54min
  • 009_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_07

    Duración: 55min
  • 010_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_08

    Duración: 35min
  • 011_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_09

    Duración: 46min
  • 012_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_10

    Duración: 47min
  • 013_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_11

    Duración: 55min
  • 014_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_12

    Duración: 46min
  • 015_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_13

    Duración: 53min
  • 016_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_14

    Duración: 53min
  • 017_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_15

    Duración: 53min
  • 018_The Evolution Of Everything_Chapter_16

    Duración: 45min
  • 019_The Evolution Of Everything_Epilogue

    Duración: 08min
  • 020_The Evolution Of Everything_outroharper

    Duración: 31s
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