The Evolution of Everything

How New Ideas Emerge

By: Matt Ridley

Business & Economics

the evolution of everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch—the endless fascination human beings have for design rather than evolution, for direction rather than emergence. drawing on anecdotes from science, economics, history, politics and philosophy, matt ridley’s wide-ranging, highly opinionated opus demolishes conventional assumptions that major scientific and...