Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Language: English
Published by Liveright, 2019
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Armadillo Alley Books, Carrollton, TX, U.S.A.Armadillo Alley Books
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Purchased New. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page. This unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light creases to spine tail. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Black and white illustrations by Debby Cotter Kaspari. Dust jacket is unclipped ($23.95) with a faint crinkle to spine tail and bottom of back flap. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 153 pages. 5½ x 8¾" tall. Edward O. Wilson?s 21st-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that the human body and mind have a physical base that is obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Wilson demonstrates that the only way to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. At least seventeen of these species?among them the African naked mole-rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp?have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation. Braiding 21st-century scientific theory with the lyrical biological and humanistic observations for which Wilson is known, ?Genesis? is ?a magisterial history of social evolution, from clouds of midges or sparrows to the grotesqueries of ant colonies.…
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- Title
- Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
- Author
- Edward O. Wilson
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1631495542
- ISBN 13
- 9781631495540
- Illustrator
- Debby Cotter Kaspari
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
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