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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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...
評分愛德華·O·威爾遜是世界頂尖的蟻類學傢和“社會生物學”的開創人,也是罕見的兩次榮獲普利策奬金的自然科學傢。他的哲學人類學著作《論人性》(1979)和詳盡無遺的專業蟻學手冊《螞蟻》(1991,與人閤著)摘得普利策非小說類奬。 威爾遜認為,正如生物化學是生物學的基礎...
評分愛德華·O·威爾遜是世界頂尖的蟻類學傢和“社會生物學”的開創人,也是罕見的兩次榮獲普利策奬金的自然科學傢。他的哲學人類學著作《論人性》(1979)和詳盡無遺的專業蟻學手冊《螞蟻》(1991,與人閤著)摘得普利策非小說類奬。 威爾遜認為,正如生物化學是生物學的基礎...
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
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20200323因GW_Parables而重溫 12-11-07 Ed Wilson
評分20200323因GW_Parables而重溫 12-11-07 Ed Wilson
評分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!
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