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The Meaning of Human Existence

E.O. Wilson

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#2556 of 3,809 books · #259 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2014).

The Meaning of Human Existence won the National Bestseller designation and two Pulitzer Prizes. One of our greatest scientists gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities. Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780804154062
Topics
Human evolutionUnity of knowledgeBiology and culture

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