Name: Everything Evolves. Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics
SKU: 64753450
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Author: Mark Vellend
ISBN: 9780691253404

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Everything Evolves. Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Author

Mark Vellend

Year

2025

Pages

264

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.2x16.7x2.7 cm

ISBN13

9780691253404

Everything Evolves. Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics

Mark Vellend (Author) · Princeton University Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Everything Evolves. Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics"

How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligenceEverything Evolves reveals how evolutionary dynamics shape the world as we know it and how we are harnessing the principles of evolution in pursuit of many goals, such as increasing the global food supply and creating artificial intelligence capable of evolving its own solutions to thorny problems. Taking readers on an astonishing journey, Mark Vellend describes how all observable phenomena in the universe can be understood through two sciences. The first is physics. The second is the science of evolvable systems. Vellend shows how this Second Science unifies biology and culture and how evolution gives rise to everything from viruses and giraffes to nation-states, technology, and us. He discusses how the idea of evolution had precedents in areas such as language and economics long before it was made famous by Darwin, and how only by freeing ourselves of the notion that the study of evolution must start with biology can we appreciate the true breadth of evolutionary processes. A sweeping tour of the natural and social sciences, Everything Evolves is an essential introduction to one of the two key pillars to the scientific enterprise and an indispensable guide to understanding some of the most difficult challenges of the Anthropocene.