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The Evolution of Everything
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The Evolution of Everything

World.Minds, 2016

audio autogenerado
audio autogenerado

Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Eye Opening
  • Overview
  • Engaging

Recommendation

Throughout history, society has extolled the inventors and innovators who make new discoveries. But science journalist Matt Ridley believes adulation for revered creators such as Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein is overblown. He discusses how all ideas and technologies, much like languages, evolve organically from the bottom up in an unplanned, incremental way, and he minimizes individuals’ role in progress. getAbstract recommends Ridley’s lively contrarian presentation to anyone interested in the processes of idea creation, discovery and evolution.

Take-Aways

  • Society mistakenly credits humans for progress for which evolution is responsible.
  • Though languages, government and the Internet are the products of human ingenuity, they evolved spontaneously in a bottom-up fashion.
  • All society’s greatest inventions were inevitable. They would have emerged eventually had the people credited with their discovery not succeeded.

About the Speaker

Science journalist Matt Ridley, a peer in the British House of Lords, wrote Genome and The Rational Optimist.


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