The Meaning of Human Existence
Author(s): Edward O. Wilson
Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for his over-reliance on genetics, Wilson unfurls his most expansive and advanced theories on human behaviour. Whether attempting to explicate "the Riddle of the Human Species", warning of "the Collapse of Biodiversity" or creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.", Wilson believes that humanity holds a special position in the known universe. Alarmed, however, that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma in millennia.
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Edward O. Wilson, a professor emeritus at Harvard University, is the author of Letters to a Young Scientist (ISBN 978 0 87140 385 8), The Social Conquest of Earth (ISBN 978 0 87140 363 6) and From So Simple a Beginning (ISBN 978 0 393 06134 5), among other works.
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- : W W Norton & Co Ltd
- : Liveright Publishing Corporation
- : November 2014
- : United States
- : October 2014
- : books
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- : Edward O. Wilson
- : Hardback
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- : 128
- : 208
