Front cover image for Critical mass : how one thing leads to another : being an enquiry into the interplay of chance and necessity in the way that human culture, customs, institutions, cooperation and conflict arise

Critical mass : how one thing leads to another : being an enquiry into the interplay of chance and necessity in the way that human culture, customs, institutions, cooperation and conflict arise

According to Donne 'no man is an island' but how exactly are we affected by the behaviour of others? Are there 'laws of nature' that guide human affairs? Have we complete freedom in creating our societies, or are we trapped by 'human nature'? And how, in human affairs, does one thing lead to another?
eBook, English, 2005
Arrow, London, 2005
1 online resource (xii, 644 pages : illustrations, portraits, charts)
9781448185412, 1448185416
1029022900
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