A Brief Natural History of Civilization: Why a Balance Between Cooperation and Competition Is Vital to Humanity

A compelling evolutionary narrative that reveals how human civilization follows the same ecological rules that shape all life on Earth

¿Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and natural selection processes that have created all other life on Earth. Bertness follows the evolutionary process...