Robert Wright is an American journalist, scholar, and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, including The Evolution of God, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information. He is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Bloggingheads.tv. He is a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a think tank that has been described as radical centrist in orientation. Additionally, Wright teaches an undergraduate seminar at Princeton University on the connections between modern cognitive science and Buddhism, in addition to an online course on the same subject.
Robert Wright book The Evolution of God
The Evolution of God. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009, p. 286.
“We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.”
Source: The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000, p. 323.
