Non-Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright, Little, Brown,
£22.50, ISBN 0316644854
ARE intelligent creatures inevitable if evolution is left to do its business
long enough? Is increasing complexity an essential feature of biological and
social evolution?
Yes, says Robert Wright in his new book Non-Zero: the Logic of Human
Destiny. This may seem banal: after all, until life has become complex, the
arrow of evolution can’t go the other way. But self-replicating chemicals need
not have evolved into genes inside cells. Individual cells need not have
combined to form multicellular organisms. And social animals need not have…
