The Human Swarm

“wide-ranging, deeply interesting …made my neurons pop”

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“A truer statement hasn’t been uttered: “Our “groupiness” shapes human history.”  Mark Moffett’s book is a wide-ranging, deeply interesting analysis of how large numbers of individual agents become a society.  His travels in the world and through vast intellectual landscapes give him a unique view of why we are the way we are, both in our similarity to other living beings and our differences from them – our ability to include once alien groups into our own, for example.  There is no other book I’ve read…

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The Human Swarm

“Extraordinary!”

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“Extraordinary! I am amazed to follow Mark Moffett’s thoughts and knowledge and take a mental trips that goes within a span of seconds from ants to Michael Corleone.” —Isabella Rossellini, actress who explores animal behavior

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The Human Swarm

“have your mind changed”

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“This is a book of amazing ideas, many of them counter­intuitive. Mark Moffett’s astounding stories of animal societies persuaded me that the future of human cities have been foretold by the ants. Read this manifesto if you like to have your mind changed.”  —Kevin Kelly,  founder of Wired magazine, futurist, and author of The Inevitable and What Technology Wants

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The Human Swarm

“one jaw-dropping revelation after another”

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“The Human Swarm is surely the most accurate, most comprehensive, most original explanation of our social existence that we’re ever likely to see, one jaw-dropping revelation after another, most of them astonishing, all of them fascinating.  It’s true without question, which seems obvious as you’re reading, and it’s very well written—a joy to read.” —Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Harmless People and A Million Years with You

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