Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) was the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson was a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lived with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.
"The acclaimed naturalist delivers a pithy summary of evidence for
Darwinian evolution of human behavior.... A magisterial history of
social evolution, [and] lucid, concise overview of human evolution
that mentions tools and brain power in passing but focuses on the
true source of our pre-eminence: the ability to work together."
*Kirkus Reviews [starred review]*
"Wilson (On Human Nature), a Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard
evolutionary biologist, addresses what he calls the six “great
transitions of evolution” that led to human society in this
ambitious treatise, his 32nd book.... He does an impressive job in
this short text of making the nature of the transitions
clear.”"
*Publishers Weekly*
"Arresting.... Deeply informative and provocative."
*Ray Olson, Booklist*
"Genesis is a beautifully clear account of a question that has lain
unsolved at the core of biology ever since Darwin: how can natural
selection produce individuals so altruistic that, rather than
breeding themselves, they help others to do so?"
*Richard Wrangham, author of The Goodness Paradox*
"In his characteristically clear, succinct, and elegant prose, one
of our grand masters of synthesis, Edward O. Wilson, explains here
no less than the origin of human society."
*Richard Rhodes, winner of the Pulitzer Prize*
"Endlessly fascinating, Edward O. Wilson - in the tradition of
Darwin - plumbs the depths of human evolution in a most readable
fashion without sacrificing scholarly rigor."
*Michael Ruse, author of A Meaning of Life*
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