This has got to be one of the best books, if not the best book, I have ever read of how to make sense of the word.To know what is the meaning of life.The world went from flat to round with new thinking. Evolution by Competition is a book written in the same vein. It changes how we should think of the world and our personal lives in it, making utter sense of it.Harvey makes life simple to understand, showing a continuum of competition that flows like a river, from the beginning of the universe up to the present time. Harvey maintains competition did not evolve from life, but life evolved from competition, as competitive interaction of forces from energy is a fundamental of the Universe.He argues Evolutionary desires for destructive domination using old guard political and religious dogma, need to be re thought with new age reasoning and thinking, considering we have over 14,000 nuclear weapons stock piled around the world.To do this he brings together many ideas, new and old, to demystify life, in simple understandable language for our modern reasoned free thinking interconnected world. Goodbye old dogma bullies, hello free thinking, freedom loving, new age people are his hope. Harvey asserts competition is a double-edged sword in what Charles Darwin termed the 'war of nature'. It can be positive or negative, causing healthy competition or destructive competition, love and fight, war and peace.That even good and bad, harmony and fairness evolved because they helped strengthen 'together stronger', all important weapon's for human's survival in the 'war of nature'.That even ideas and knowledge have to be 'comparatively competitive'.He follows on from Charles Darwin's 'natural selection' by using the term 'intelligent selection' for humans' ability to select ideas and knowledge that cause our modern world to flourish.There are lots of quotes and URL clickable videos and references to people such as Socrates, Darwin, Henley, Krauss, Ferreiro, Einstein, Dawkins, Cox, Sagan, Attenborough, Baggott, Lewison, Pinker, Carrier, Fondalis, Kipling, Polz, Igoshin and many others including of course, Freddi Mercury. Harvey postulates a Ten Commendments of 'Evolution by Competition'. He attests why the separation of the church from the state in 1648 was such a positive turning point for humanity. The author contends our ancestors were not just Hunters and Gathers, but Hunters, Gatherers and Fighters and the 'war of nature' was much more. It was a 'guerrilla war of nature' and it's been ongoing since our ancestors were at least microbes! Find out about the fossils, bones and artefacts the author found as an opal miner, investigator and farmer and how these experiences and others, helped free his mind from the confusion of a biased religious upbringing. Find out about why the author considers an Evolutionist a better term to use than Atheist. See if you agree?There is some discussion about pre-modern lives and how violent they were compared to today. With some stories on murderers, cannibals and sacrifice thrown in for comparison!There is much more.'Evolution by Competition' is a simple, easy to follow concept, using everyday words, that joins the dots of life, knowledge and the Universe into one clear picture, as nothing else I have ever read. See how wrong or right you think he is?It is well researched, strongly argued and makes common sense. I hope you enjoy the journey as much as I did.'Every so often something amazing comes along'Sane Publications