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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.5 WILWilson, Edward O.
Summary: In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities and the sciences: what they offer to each other, how they can be united, and where they still fall short.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1971
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.7 WILWilson, Edward O.
Summary: An acclaimed biologist discusses how morality, religion, and the creative arts are biological in nature and defends his theory that the origin of the human condition is due to group, not family, selection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Pub. Corporation 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 WILWilson, Edward O
Summary: Studying animal behavior to understand human behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 591.5 WILWilson, Edward O.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2010
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Summary: "Summary Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants-from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest. " Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony. . . . Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg," writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 595.79 WILWilson, Edward O.
Summary: " Like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this is a book about the fate of the earth and the survival of our planet. Wilson attempts to bridge the seemingly irreconcilable worlds of fundamentalism and science. Passionately concerned about the state of the world, he draws on his own personal experiences and expertise as an entomologist, and prophesies that half the species of plants and animals on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.95 WILDunn, Rob R.
Summary: " ... traces the history of human discovery, from the establishment of classification in the eighteenth century to today's attempts to find life in space"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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Summary: In this book, world-renowned marine ecologist Enric Sala illuminates the many reasons why preserving Earth's biodiversity makes logical, emotional, and economic sense. Using key moments from his own scientific awakening, Sala reveals that our survival depends on all species. The natural world, he explains, is a perfect circular economy, where every species, in life and in death, sustains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 SALDarwin, Charles
Contents: The voyage of the Beagle (1845) -- On the origin of species (1859) -- The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex (1871) -- The expression of the emotions in man and animals (1872).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.82 DARHl̲ldobler, Bert
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of Ants present a lavishly detailed account of the extraordinary lives of social insects that draws on more than two decades of research and offers insight into how bees, termites, and other insect societies thrive in systems of altruistic cooperation, complex communication, and labor division.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2009