Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), naturalist (conservationist) and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants.
Wilson is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. He is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters.
As of 2007, he is Pellegrino University Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.
Wilson is a sophisticated and marvelously humane writer. His vision is a liberating one, and a reader of this splendid book comes away with a sense of the kinship that exists among the people, animals, and insects that share the planet. (New Yorker 20041219)
Compellingly interesting and enormously important...The most stimulating, the most provocative, and the most illuminating work of nonfiction I have read in some time.
--William McPherson (Washington Post Book World 20050301)
A work of high intellectual daring...Here is an accomplished biologist explaining, in notably clear and unprevaricating language, what he thinks his subject now has to offer to the understanding of man and society...The implications of Wilson's thesis are rather considerable, for if true, no system of political, social, religious or ethical thought can afford to ignore it.
--Nicholas Wade (New Republic 20071124)
Twenty-five years after its first publication, Harvard University Press has re-released Edward O. Wilson's classic work, On Human Nature. A double Pulitzer Prize winner, Wilson is a writer of effortless grace and stylish succinctness and this is one of his finest, most important books...[A] highly influential, elegantly written book.
--Robin McKie (The Observer )
A seminal, groundbreaking, informative, thought-provoking, enduringly valuable, and highly recommended read. (Bookwatch )
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Ehrlich在《論人性》中說,進化理論研究,一直對“閤作”視而不見或有很大的誤解,是因為總是從個體或群體的視角來看進化現象。一旦轉變為基因視角,嗒噠,一通百通。當然,基因的視角還不夠,更準確的視角還需要更後退一步。 我們看待自己總是以為“萬物之靈”,忘記瞭自己就...
評分Ehrlich在《論人性》中說,進化理論研究,一直對“閤作”視而不見或有很大的誤解,是因為總是從個體或群體的視角來看進化現象。一旦轉變為基因視角,嗒噠,一通百通。當然,基因的視角還不夠,更準確的視角還需要更後退一步。 我們看待自己總是以為“萬物之靈”,忘記瞭自己就...
評分Ehrlich在《論人性》中說,進化理論研究,一直對“閤作”視而不見或有很大的誤解,是因為總是從個體或群體的視角來看進化現象。一旦轉變為基因視角,嗒噠,一通百通。當然,基因的視角還不夠,更準確的視角還需要更後退一步。 我們看待自己總是以為“萬物之靈”,忘記瞭自己就...
評分這本書帶給我的啓發,不亞於當年看1984的程度,雖然任何生物學,經濟學,人文學,文學甚至藝術著作對於解釋大格局的人類生存目地和意義隻是給齣一個可能性,但決不妨礙我們從中受益。本書的弱點是翻譯水平參疵不齊,一些爛章節,比如說部分的內容脫節,邏輯不清,相信主要還是...
評分在圖書館看到這本書完全是偶然,對這個齣版社我沒有什麼感覺,但題目還是吸引我隨手翻瞭一下,沒想到深深地吸引瞭我,從此威爾遜便成為瞭我最喜歡的科學傢之一。 繼《社會生物學》後,威爾遜沒有停止他的腳步,雖然批評聲不斷,但他仍然堅持自己的信念,繼續用生物學來...
圖書標籤: 社會生物學 心理學 科普 社會學 Edward_O_Wilson 行為分析 evolution 英文原版
Though I have read and loved all of EOW's books and essays, I invariably read this one over and over again each year. I have a two-day business trip in Scotland and I will only take this one!
評分聽的有聲書 念得特彆好 把威爾遜那種居高臨下的語氣全念齣來瞭
評分20200323因GW_Parables而重溫 12-11-07 Ed Wilson
評分最近(同時)在讀太多本書瞭。。決定先專心的把這本看完。。(現看瞭一半。。感覺都是在復習啊啊。。。差點不想看瞭。。
評分學螞蟻的人說的social biology的書 其sexuality一章把人的性彆和hiv分裂做對比的故事還挺好玩。更多意見有待我在讀點其他的東西然後再給齣。
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