· Edward O. Wilson’s latest book has something to offend nearly everyone who is not a convinced sociobiologist; essentially, the author claims a biological basis for all human institutions and. · In the s, he attempted to unite science with the humanities through the concept of consilience. In , he is 91 years old and still active. His life and work inspire me. He has the fire. On Human Nature inspired two book chapters that are coming out later this year. · Book Overview. 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.5/5(6).
quotes from Edward O. Wilson: 'People would rather believe than know.', 'Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.', and 'Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.'. Edward O. Wilson's latest book has something to offend nearly everyone who is not a convinced sociobiologist; essentially, the author claims a biological basis for all human institutions and. Edward O. Wilson: On Human Nature Summary by Michael McGoodwin, prepared , minor revisions Acknowledgement: This work has been summarized using the edition. Quotations are for the most part taken from that work. THE DILEMMAS CAUSED BY A BIOLOGICAL VIEW OF HUMAN NATURE.
Wilson clearly recognizes in On Human Nature that the fact that humans are not infinitely malleable is a fundamental emancipatory message. Whereas Utopians have for centuries dreamed of creating the perfect society based on inculcating prosocial values and suppressing selfish and antisocial values, Wilson recognizes the totalitarian implications of ideologies, such as Marxism and some forms of liberalism. Publication Date: 10/18/ * Academic Trade. pages. /8 x /2 inches. World. About This Book. About the Author (s) Reviews. In his new preface, Edward 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. “ 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.
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