Nonzero (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Wright
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Anthropology, history, natural history, philosophy, and science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Anthropology
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Games, Evolution, Social sciences, Natural history
Robert Wright is an award-winning essayist and journalist. His 1994 book, The Moral Animal, argued that genetic evolution created human morality. Although this earlier work is an interesting presentation of the evolutionary view of human beings, it is essentially a popularization of views held by many evolutionary psychologists and sociobiologists. In Nonzero, Wright again takes up the subject of the evolution of human society, but this time he develops an original and farsighted theory.
Many contemporary social and physical scientists reject the view that evolution...
[The entire page is 2029 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
