Superorganism - Toward a New Social Contract for Our Endangered Species

This Element has a more hopeful prescription for a new global social contract. It is based on the many examples of superorganisms - socially organized species - in the natural world, and in evolution.

List of contents

1. A Preview of the Near Future; 2. 'The Future Is Not What It Used to Be'; 3. The Lessons of History: Past, Present, and Future; 4. 'Unite or Die'; 5. Building a Superorganism; 6. The Next 'Major Transition' in Evolution; Bibliography.

Summary

This Element has a more hopeful prescription for a new global social contract. It is based on the many examples of superorganisms – socially organized species – in the natural world, and in evolution.

Foreword

This Element is based on the many examples of superorganisms – socially organized species – in the natural world, and in evolution.

Product details

• Authors: Peter A. Corning, Peter A. (Institute for the Study of Comp Corning
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2023
• EAN: 9781009400428
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0940042-8
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Applied Evolutionary Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Evolution, PSYCHOLOGY / Applied Psychology, Early Man, Evolutionary anthropology / Human evolution