CONSILIENCE; The Unity of Knowledge

Wilson, Edward O.

ISBN 10: 0679450777 / ISBN 13: 9780679450771

Published by Knopf, New York, 1998

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6 x 9, 332 pgs. Biologist Wilson argues that the universe is organized -- as the Greeks first theorized, and as the Enlightenment sought to demonstrate -- in terms of a small number of natural laws.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CONSILIENCE; The Unity of Knowledge
• Publisher: Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679450777
• ISBN 13: 9780679450771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good in Very Good DJ
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History

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Synopsis

An expert on sociobiology and biodiversity argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge in the face of the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge over the past two centuries

About the Author

Edward O. Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1929. He received his B.S. and M.S. in biology from the University of Alabama and, in 1955, his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard, where he has since taught, and where he has received both of its college-wide teaching awards. He is currently Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, <i>OOn Human Natur</i>e (1978) and <i>The Ants</i>(1990, with Bert Hölldobler), as well as the recipient of many fellowships, honors, and awards, including the 1977 National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1990), the International Prize for Biology from Japan (1993), and, for his conservation efforts, the Gold Medal of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (1990) and the Audubon Medal of the National Audubon Society (1995). He is on the Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, and the American Museum of Natural History, and gives many lectures throughout the world. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife, Irene.