Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Wilson is a sophisticated and marvelously humane writer. His vision
is a liberating one, and a reader of this splendid book comes away
with a sense of the kinship that exists among the people, animals,
and insects that share the planet.
*New Yorker*
Compellingly interesting and enormously important...The most
stimulating, the most provocative, and the most illuminating work
of nonfiction I have read in some time.
*Washington Post Book World*
A work of high intellectual daring...Here is an accomplished
biologist explaining, in notably clear and unprevaricating
language, what he thinks his subject now has to offer to the
understanding of man and society...The implications of Wilson's
thesis are rather considerable, for if true, no system of
political, social, religious or ethical thought can afford to
ignore it.
*New Republic*
Twenty-five years after its first publication, Harvard University
Press has re-released Edward O. Wilson's classic work, On Human
Nature. A double Pulitzer Prize winner, Wilson is a writer of
effortless grace and stylish succinctness and this is one of his
finest, most important books...[A] highly influential, elegantly
written book.
*The Observer*
A seminal, groundbreaking, informative, thought-provoking,
enduringly valuable, and highly recommended read.
*Bookwatch*
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