{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/nonzero","description":"In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history - and discerning where history will lead us next.\n\nIn Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern. Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright\u0026#39;s narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, from stone-age villages to the World Trade Organization, uncovering such surprises as the benefits of barbarian hordes and the useful stability of feudalism. Here is history endowed with moral significance--a way of looking at our biological and cultural evolution that suggests, refreshingly, that human morality has improved over time, and that our instinct to discover meaning may itself serve a higher purpose.\n\nInsightful, witty, profound, Nonzero offers breathtaking implications for what we believe and how we adapt to technology\u0026#39;s ongoing transformation of the world.","author_name":"Robert Wright","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/robert-wright","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/2827961/0a271e371be006c47ab44fa36fdff8bbfe66455e.jpeg","thumbnail_width":322,"thumbnail_height":500}