Description
Challenging a purely mechanistic view of human existence, Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species.
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.
Reviews
"His [Edward O. Wilson's] prose is always so lucid and eloquent." — The Bookseller
"Written in Wilson’s usual engaging and highly readable style…" — Times Higher Education
Awards
Shortlisted — National Book Award, 2014
Also By: Edward O. Wilson 
Tales from the Ant World
Paperback, 2021
“In Mr. Wilson ants have found not only their Darwin but also their Homer.” —Economist
Tales from the Ant World
Hardback, 2020
Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants, from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest.
Tales from the Ant World
E Book, 2020
“In Mr. Wilson ants have found not only their Darwin but also their Homer.” —Economist
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Paperback, 2020
“The book bursts to life with [Wilson’s] observations of nature, from fire ants and social spiders to starlings.”—Aarathi Prasad, New York Times Book Review
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Hardback, 2019
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.
