Authors: Edward O. Wilson, Edmund O. Wilson
ISBN-13: 9780679768678, ISBN-10: 067976867X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: March 1999
Edition: Reprint
Edward O. Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1929. He received his B.S. and M.S. in biology from the University of Alabama and, in 1955, his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard, where he has since taught, and where he has received both of its college-wide teaching awards. He is currently Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, OOn Human Nature (1978) and The Ants(1990, with Bert Hölldobler), as well as the recipient of many fellowships, honors, and awards, including the 1977 National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1990), the International Prize for Biology from Japan (1993), and, for his conservation efforts, the Gold Medal of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (1990) and the Audubon Medal of the National Audubon Society (1995). He is on the Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, and the American Museum of Natural History, and gives many lectures throughout the world. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife, Irene.
The unity of knowledge across the sciences and humanities. Bestseller by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author,one of our greatest living scientists.
As elegant in its prose as it is rich inits ideas...a book of immense importance.
Ch. 1 | The Ionian Enchantment | 3 |
Ch. 2 | The Great Branches of Learning | 8 |
Ch. 3 | The Enlightenment | 14 |
Ch. 4 | The Natural Sciences | 45 |
Ch. 5 | Ariadne's Thread | 66 |
Ch. 6 | The Mind | 96 |
Ch. 7 | From Genes to Culture | 125 |
Ch. 8 | The Fitness of Human Nature | 164 |
Ch. 9 | The Social Sciences | 181 |
Ch. 10 | The Arts and Their Interpretation | 210 |
Ch. 11 | Ethics and Religion | 238 |
Ch. 12 | To What End? | 266 |
Notes | 299 | |
Acknowledgments | 321 | |
Index | 323 |