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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

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A specialist on social insects writes about the origins and implications of our own vast social organisation, and the ways in which our ethnic and national distinctions mirror those of other animals.

In this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Mark W. Moffett draws on findings in psychology, sociology and anthropology to explain the social adaptations that bind societies. He explores how the tension between identity and anonymity defines how societies develop, function, and fail. In the vein of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, The Human Swarm reveals how mankind created sprawling civilizations of unrivalled complexity – and what it will take to sustain them.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherApollo
Release dateApr 4, 2019
ISBN9781789544190
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Mark W. Moffett

Mark W. Moffett is a biologist and research associate at the Smithsonian, and a visiting scholar in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He has also authored four books. Called a 'daring eco-adventurer' by Margaret Atwood, his writing has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing.

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    Fails to deliver on the promises in the first chapter. Author pussyfoots around sensitive topics as if he was running for office.