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Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
Herbert Spencer, the eugenics movement’s founding intellectual.
Jonathan Mooney • Normal Sucks
It doesn’t require a large leap of speculative evolutionary psychology to arrive at the reasonable conclusion that Homo sapiens are well adapted to small-group collaboration.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
Dass freilich nicht jedes Merkmal seine Erklärung in einem Überlebenszweck finden muss, verdeutlichte der amerikanische Biologe und Philosoph Steven Jay Gould
Andreas Weber • Alles fühlt (German Edition)
Edward O. Wilson’s Consilience
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
forests are superorganisms with interconnections much like ant colonies.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature Book 1)
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
Darwin provided a proto-description of ecology, describing an ‘entangled bank’, wherein plants of many kinds, birds, insects and other ‘elaborately constructed forms, so different from one another’ were produced by the complex forces of evolution, yet depended utterly on one another.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
“Any observant local knows more than any visiting scientist. Always. No exceptions.”