Everything evolved - Mat Ridley

Number of pages: 500 Publisher: Dar Sattouri This book argues that evolution occurs everywhere around us. It is also the best way to understand how the human world changes, as well as the natural world. Change in institutions, manufactured goods, and human habits is: incremental, inevitable, deterministic; it follows a sequence of events transitioning from one stage to another; it creeps rather than leaps, it has its own automatic momentum rather than being pushed from outside, it has no goal or purpose in mind, and it largely happens through trial and error — the method of natural selection. A large part of the human world is the result of human effort, not the result of any human design. It emerges from the interaction of millions, not from the plans of a few. It kills Mat Ridley, and based on solid evidence from science, economics, history, politics, and philosophy, the traditional assumptions that claim major events and transformations in our era are caused by those in power are completely false. On the contrary, our most important achievements develop from the bottom up. The industrial revolution, smartphones, and the internet were not planned; they all emerged automatically. Languages also evolved through a form of natural selection, just as general laws emerged. In this wide-ranging and astonishing book, you are about to embark on a diverse journey through which Ridley skillfully presents the idea of evolution, rather than design, as the force that has shaped much of our culture, technology, minds, and even our future.