Naturalist - Softcover

Wilson, Edward O.

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ISBN 10: 0446671991 ISBN 13: 9780446671996

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1995

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Harvard University's Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist and world-famous champion of Earth's biological diversity looks back over his lifelong enchantment with the natural world and outlines the main principles of evolutionary biology. Reissue.

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oNaturalist reads like a classic heroAEs tale.o--THE BLOOMSBURY REVIEW

oNaturalist reads like a classic heroAEs tale.o --THE BLOOMSBURY REVIEW

o[Naturalist] is one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written, by one of the finest scientists writing today.o --Los Angeles Times

oWhat distinguishes WilsonAEs story is its handsome prose, honed by years of practice into a concise and sly discourse. Among literary scientists, no one since Rachel Carson has more effectively joined humble detail to a grand vision of life processes and structures.o --Washington Post Book World

o�Naturalist� is one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written, by one of the finest scientists writing today.o --Los Angeles Times

"Vividly, often beautifully written. Wilson emerges not only as a gifted scientist, but also as a likable, passionate, eloquent person."--Jared Diamond "The New York Review of Books "

-Vividly, often beautifully written. Wilson emerges not only as a gifted scientist, but also as a likable, passionate, eloquent person.---Jared Diamond -The New York Review of Books -

About the Author:

Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor and curator of entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

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