Meaning of Human Existence

Name: Meaning of Human Existence
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ISBN: 9780871401007

ISBN-10: 0871401002

ISBN-13: 9780871401007

Edition: 2014

Authors: Edward O. Wilson

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Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outeredges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophyto create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticized for his over-relianceon genetics, Wilson unfurls here his most expansive and advanced theories on humanbehavior, recognizing that, even though the human and the spider evolved similarly, the poet'ssonnet is wholly different from the spider's web. Whether attempting to explicate "the Riddleof the Human Species," warning of "the Collapse of Biodiversity," or even creating a plausible"Portrait of E.T.," Wilson does indeed believe that humanity…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 10/6/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.85" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1929. He is currently Pellegrino University Research Professor & Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is on the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy, Conservation International & the American Museum of Natural History. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.