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The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History

The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History

Bloom, Howard

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral ScienceGenetics

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0871136643
ISBN13: 9780871136640
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Published: Mar 13 1997
Pages: 466
Weight: 1.12
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.12
Language: English

The Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that evil is a by-product of nature's strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most basic biological fabric.

In a sweeping narrative that moves lucidly among sophisticated scientific disciplines and covers the entire span of the earth's, as well as mankind's, history, Howard Bloom challenges some of our most popular scientific assumptions. Drawing on evidence from studies of the most primitive organisms to those on ants, apes, and humankind, the author makes a persuasive case that it is the group, or 'superorganism, rather than the lone individual that really matters in the evolutionary struggle. But, Bloom asserts, the prominence of society and culture does not necessarily mitigate against our most violent, aggressive instincts. In fact, under the right circumstances, the mentality of the group will only amplify our most primitive and deadly urges.

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