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Summary: Biologist Wilson, considered to be one of the world's greatest living scientists, argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge, that everything in our world is organized in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws. Wilson, the pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, now once again breaks out of the conventions of current thinking. He shows how and why our explosive rise in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Summary: Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1971
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Summary: By studying fields as diverse as paleontology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience, Wilson demonstrates that human creativity began not 10,000 years ago, as we have long assumed, but over 100,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Age. Chronicling the evolution of creativity from primates to humans, Wilson shows how the humanities, in large part spurred on by the invention of language, have played...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "E.O. Wilson, one of the most celebrated scientists in the United States, shows why biodiversity is vital to the future of Earth and to our own species through the story of an African national park that may be the most diverse place on earth, in a gorgeously illustrated book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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Summary: Presents the adventures of Raff, a modern-day Huck Finn in Alabama, whose love of ants transforms his life and those around him as he fights condo developers intent on destroying an endangered tract of land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1978
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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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Summary: A twenty-first-century philosophical argument against mechanistic views of human life outlines expansive and advanced theories on human behavior to consider how humans are supremely different from all other species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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Summary: In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species and posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2014
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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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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2010
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Summary: In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. He argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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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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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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Summary: "In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 WILSummary: It chronicles the famed biologist lifelong love for the natural world and his groundbreaking research. His work with ants led to his remarkable studies of advanced social behavior. His research turned to human behavior, and the controversial discipline of sociobiology was founded. His work in the great National Park of Gorongosa, brings together the great themes of his life and work: nature and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2015
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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