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.
When Sociobiology was published in 1975, our reviewer, John
Pfeiffer, hailed it as ‘an evolutionary event.’ Since then, it has
become the framework for a controversial new science—the study of
the biological basis for social behavior in every species, from the
lowliest amoeba colony to modern human behavior. This shortened
version, retaining all of Sarah Landry’s illuminating drawings,
makes it more accessible to general readers.
*New York Times Book Review*
It is impossible to leave Wilson’s book without having one’s sense
of life permanently and dramatically widened.
*The Atlantic*
Rarely has the world been provided with such a splendid stepping
stone for an exciting future of a new science.
*Scientific American*
The book enthralls and enchants… If you have this book…you can
begin getting your mind ready for the illuminations about human
society.
*Harper’s*
Sociobiology is an excellent book, full of extraordinary insights,
and replete with the beauty and poetry of the animal kingdom.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Its contents do indeed provide a new synthesis, of wide perspective
and great authority… Wilson’s plain uncluttered prose is a treat to
read, his logic is rigorous, his arguments are lucid.
*Nature*
A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance… Like
most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently
accessible.
*Contemporary Sociology*
Sociobiology, a new concept, is one with extraordinary potential
value for understanding and explaining human behavior.
*Practical Psychology*
This book will stand as a landmark in the comparative study of
social behavior.
*Quarterly Review of Biology*
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