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From The Most Celebrated Heir To Darwin Comes A Groundbreaking Book On Evolution, The Summa Work Of Edward O. Wilson's Legendary Career. [pt.] 1. Why Does Advanced Social Life Exist? The Human Condition -- [pt.] 2. Where Do We Come From? The Two Paths To Conquest ; The Approach ; The Arrival ; Threading The Evolutionary Maze ; The Creative Forces ; Tribalism Is A Fundamental Human Trait ; War As Humanity's Hereditary Curse ; The Breakout ; The Creative Explosion ; The Sprint To Civilization -- [pt.] 3. How Social Insects Conquered The Invertebrate World. The Invention Of Eusociality ; Inventions That Advanced The Social Insects -- [pt.] 4. The Forces Of Social Evolution. The Scientific Dilemma Of Rarity ; Insect Altruism And Eusociality Explained ; Insects Take The Giant Leap ; How Natural Selection Creates Social Instincts ; The Forces Of Social Evolution ; The Emergence Of A New Theory Of Eusociality -- [pt.] 5. What Are We? What Is Human Nature? ; How Culture Evolved ; The Origins Of Language ; The Evolution Of Cultural Variation ; The Origins Of Morality And Honor ; The Origins Of Religion ; The Origins Of The Creative Arts -- [pt.] 6. Where Are We Going? A New Enlightenment. Edward O. Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [303]-326) And Index. Based on a lifetime of pioneering research, preeminent naturalist Edward O. Wilson gives us a new history of human evolution, presented in an elegant and provocative narrative that promises to have reverberations in fields as diverse as anthropology and social psychology, neuroscience and 21st-century intellectual and religious history. Wilson begins by addressing three "fundamental questions" of religion and philosophy that have fascinated thinkers for centuries: Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Writing that "the origin of modern humanity was a stroke of luck, good for our species for a while, bad for most of the rest of life forever," Wilson traces the rise of Homo sapiens from its infancy, drawing on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to present us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition. Wilson also reveals how "group selection" can be the only model for explaining man's origins and domination, and warns that it has now accelerated--through unregulated and untrammeled growth--to such a point that the planet as we know it is being threatened.--From publisher description. From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career. Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while overturning the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first ( Discover magazine). Refashioning the story of human evolution in a work that is certain to generate headlines, Wilson draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to show that group selection, not kin selection, is the primary driving force of human evolution. He proves that history makes no sense without prehistory, and prehistory makes no sense without biology. Demonstrating that the sources of morality, religion, and the creative arts are fundamentally biological in nature, Wilson presents us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition and why it resulted in our domination of the Earths biosphere. 90 illustrations "Refashioning the story of human evolution, Edward O. Wilson draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to demonstrate that group selection, not kin selection, is the premier driving force of human evolution. In a work that James D. Watson calls "a monumental exploration of the biological origins of the human condition," Wilson explains how our innate drive to belong to a group is "both a great blessing and a terrible curse" (Smithsonian magazine). Demonstrating that the sources of morality, religion, and the creative arts are fundamentally biological in nature, the renowned Harvard biologist presents us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition and why it resulted in our domination of the Earth's biosphere."--P. [4] of cover.