Peter A Corning Knihy

We've been told again and again that life is unfair. But what if we're wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? What if we have the power - and more, the duty - to change society for the better? Drawing on evidence from our evolutionary history and the science of human nature, the author shows that we have an innate sense of fairness.

This Element has a more hopeful prescription for a new global social contract. It is based on the many examples of superorganisms - socially organized species - in the natural world, and in evolution.