The reasons for me choosing this book had a lot to do with Doctor Johnson's description of it on the first day, she mentioned that it linked evolutionary thinking to military/governmental type ideas. I personally am always interested in military type information and thinking, and learning about how the government could possible take advantage of evolutionary thought also sparked my interest, hopefully they will learn a lot and I will too!
After reading the summary my interest grew even more because it specifically targets security problems that we commonly can relate to, such as "global security". For Americans ,especially after things such as 9/11 which I was horrified of living only 30 mins away from ground zero in NYC, or the movie theater shootings, or any other horrible terrorism attempts; learning from evolution to better help improve possible safety precautions is something that could be greatly needed. Another great use for this that the summary had mentioned was helping to fight infectious diseases and natural disasters. In class we had already talked about infectious diseases/viruses and how hard they can be to truly figure out a cure for, for example HIV, since the bacteria/virus itself is constantly changing and evolving to better its own defenses and counteract our attempts to stop it.
Overall, I feel like this book is going to be very interesting to see how it ties all of these concepts together, as well as informing me of any new or further improvements to look forward to in the future. At the very least I expect it to help me get a grasp on evolution as a whole better than before, and either way I cannot wait for it to get here in the mail already!!
Hi Antonio,
ReplyDeleteYou seem to think that the authors will try to provide tools based on the process of natural selection to improve the understandong, design, and development of military strategies.
When I first read the summary and book review, I didn't see it that way, though. I thought that the authors might either try to compare the history of the development of national security issues with a species' evolutionary history or create a story line with analogies connecting evolutionary mechanisms and security strategy developments -kind of like how E. O. Wilson's "Anthill" is structured.