The neighborhood project : using evolution to improve my city, one block at a time / David Sloan Wilson.
An evolutionary biologist applies the ideas of evolutionary science to his post-industrial hometown and uses the "traits" he discovers, including what bullying feeds on and how neighborhood quality affects test scores, to improve the lives of his fellow citizens.
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New York :
Little, Brown and Co.,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Evolution, cities, and the world
- My city
- The parable of the strider
- The parable of the wasp
- The maps
- Quantifying Halloween
- We are now entering the noosphere
- The parable of the immune system
- The reflection
- Street-smart
- The humanist and the CEO
- The lost island of prevention science
- The lecture that failed
- Learning from Mother Nature about teaching our children
- The world with us
- The parable of the crow
- Our lives, our genes
- The natural history of the afterlife
- Evonomics
- Body and soul
- City on a hill.