Edward O Wilson: 28 books

Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, one shorn of “religious and political dogma,” Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and synthesis. Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary...

Woher kommen wir? Was sind wir? Wohin gehen wir? Die Antworten des großen Biologen Edward O. Wilson auf die Fragen unseres Lebens. Mehr als jemals zuvor liegt die Geschichte in unserer Hand. Sind wir dabei, die Evolution zu beseitigen, indem wir einen Menschen schaffen, wie er unseren Wünschen entspricht?...

Die Hälfte der Erdoberfläche der Natur zu überlassen – das ist die Forderung des weltberühmten Biologen Edward O. Wilson. Sein Buch ist das Testament eines großen Forschers und Schriftstellers, der wie kein anderer erkannt hat, dass der Mensch trotz aller unübersehbaren Fortschritte eine biologische...

The two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist delivers “an astonishing literary achievement” (Anthony Gottlieb, The Economist). Winner of the 2010 Heartland Prize, Anthill follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, enthralled with the “strange, beautiful, and elegant”...

One of the world’s most important scientists, Edward O. Wilson is also an abundantly talented writer who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In this, his most personal and timely book to date, he assesses the precarious state of our environment, examining the mass extinctions occurring in our time...

When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. The controversy surrounding the book's publication--and surrounding its central claim that human social behavior has a biological foundation--reverberates...

Il ruolo delle formiche nella biosfera – ci dice Edward Wilson – è così importante che l'umanità forse non potrebbe sopravvivere senza di esse. E di certo non potrebbe sopravvivere senza batteri e archei, l'invisibile e onnipresente «materia oscura» dell'universo vivente della Terra. Ma l'umanità,...

The book that launched a movement: “Wilson speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all” (Oliver Sacks). Called “one of the greatest men alive” by The Times of London, E. O. Wilson proposes an historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth’s rapidly vanishing biodiversity.

In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior.

Explores the causes and implications of the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans, from multiple points of view including anthropological, scientific, social, artistic, and economic. Although we arrived only recently in Earth's timeline, humans are driving major changes to the planet's ecosystems....

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism. The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific...

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land,...

人類不斷破壞環境，許多生物失去棲地，但一切仍來得及挽救；是時候行動了，將一半的海洋及大地還給其他物種，把屬於地球的還給地球！ 生物多樣性之父、社會生物學始祖兩度普立茲獎、克拉福德獎、美國國家科學獎得主愛德華．威爾森　震撼全球科學界最新力作...

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