The Human Swarm How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

"This is a book of amazing ideas, many of them counter-intuitive. Mark Moffett's astounding stories of animal societies persuaded me that the future of human cities have been foretold by the ants. Read this manifesto if you like to have your mind changed."
– Kevin Kelly, former editor of the Whole Earth Review, founder of WIRED Magazine, author, internet guru

"A work of monumental importance [...] The Human Swarm is destined to be included in future lists of Big History that includes such epic books as Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel and Yuval Harari's Sapiens"
– Michael Shermer, author of The Moral Arc

"This fine work should have broad appeal to anyone curious about human societies, which is basically everyone"
– Publishers Weekly

"Mark Moffett presents an intriguing overview of the biological roots and cultural evolution of this now-critical situation"
– Paul R. Ehrlich, Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford and author of Human Natures

"Read this manifesto if you like to have your mind changed"
– Kevin Kelly

"[An] enticing whirlwind tour of the fascinating patterns of behaviours and structures of societies revealed through the varied lives of people and animals across the globe [...] [Mark W. Moffett] excellently illustrates the myriad psychological and physiological processes that humans deploy in unifying and othering – from disgust to implicit bias"
– Nature

"Apart from its other virtues, The Human Swarm is a book of wonders"
– New Statesman