The Gambling Animal
Humanity’s Evolutionary Winning Streak - and How We Risk It All
Don Ross author Glenn Harrison author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Publishing:30th Jan '25
£25.00
This title is due to be published on 30th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Humanity's unique relationship with risk has driven us to defy the evolutionary odds - but as the stakes keep mounting, how long before our luck runs out?
Evolution is a series of bets and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance, via the steepest odds and unlikeliest of outcomes. But our winning streak cuts both ways: the secret to our success may yet be our downfall. The Gambling Animal offers a revelatory retelling of the human story. Drawing on their unique research into the risk psychology of humans and other animals - including our most impressive rivals, elephants - Don Ross and Glenn Harrison reveal the hidden logic of our rise. Even before the dawn of civilisation, we bet the Earth on our ability to keep doubling down. But with an ecological crisis on the horizon, how long will our winning streak continue?
Praise for Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalised (with James Ladyman): A book can be important, although its main claims seem to the reader to be as controversial at the end of the book as they were at the beginning ... So it is with Every Thing Must Go ... An enticing work -- Jeremy Butterfield * TLS *
Ross's broadside against traditional analytic metaphysics embodies the most admirable characteristics of a good slap across the face: it is forceful, frank, and delivered in response to sufficient provocation -- P. Kyle Stanford, author * Exceeding Our Grasp *
ISBN: 9781788163620
Dimensions: unknown
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416 pages
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