Nonzero

Wright has constructed an interesting thesis… bold and thought-provoking. - SUNDAY TIMES

Not only a fascinating read but an important one. - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

One of the main layman’s objections to the supposedly random process of evolution is that for all its inherent pointlessness, evolution seems to have a goal, a narrative, a conscious direction. And that direction is towards complexity. Germs become animals. Apes become humans. Blood-caked Aztec savages become liberal-minded East Coast essayists. Now Robert Wright, author of the much-praised The Moral Animal, has come along with a contentious new book to tell us that the layman has been on to something all along. Evolution does have a goal. - The title of Wright’s book comes from games theory, which divides human interactions into “zero sum games”, where for every winner there’s a loser, an

The author’s learning is lightly worn. Sometimes too lightly. After a while his chatty, hey-let’s-have-a-beer style starts to grate: “When was the last time you invented a boomerang?”; “Ah, Tahiti!”. There are also some minor errors, like his claiming tha - Sean Thomas, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW