Description
An important book that proposes the notion of 'consilience' - the combination of science with the humanities, to form a unity of all knowledge.
About the Author
Edward O Wilson is Curator in Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard with which he has been connected since 1953. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, for ON HUMAN NATURE and THE ANTS.
Reviews
The first great ecologist, a pioneer in sociobiology and biodiversity...a giant among popularisers of science * Bryan Appleyard, INDEPENDENT *
There's a new Darwin. His name is Edward O. Wilson. * Tom Wolfe *
Edward O. Wilson seems to me the most important active naturalist we still have with us. It's not for nothing that he is a world expert on both ants and evolution. We really cannot do withou such intelligences as his. He makes one proud to be the same species. * John Fowles *
You can't fault his prose... This is science written with the passion of a zealot. * THE TIMES *
Awards
Short-listed for Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1999.
Book Information
ISBN 9780349111124
Author Professor Edward O. Wilson
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Abacus
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 260g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 126mm * 24mm