The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

by Matt Ridley

Book Overview

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world. The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch--the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than evolution, for direction rather than emergence. Drawing on anecdotes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062296000
• ISBN13: 9780062296009
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"