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Title: On Human Nature by Edward Osborne Wilson ISBN: 0-674-63442-X Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (22 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Boring, incomplete, disorganized: Readers deserve better.
Comment: E. O. Wilson is a great biologist. He doesn't know more about human nature than anybody else. A person who has not read an evolutionary account of human nature (of which there are many) may find the subject matter fascinating. However, Wilson's presentation is boring, incomplete, and disorganized. A good editor would have trimmed it to one essay.
The tone is condescending throughout to anybody who in not a PhD of hard science, which is unjustified. Evolution is not a difficult concept. Wilson got the Pulitzer for this book, probably because they didn't have the nerve to give it to him for Sociobiology, which would have deserved it. If you want the hard science, go read that. General readers, you will only like this book if you are as ignorant as Wilson thinks you are.
Rating: 4
Summary: Another Point of View
Comment: An interesting and engaging read - one I've returned to many times. Strongly recommend this even if I disagree with a lot of the conclusions.
Rating: 4
Summary: A nice balance
Comment: Wilson does a great job of keeping a blance between hard core science and easy to comprehend examples. He also does a nice job of keeping his views positive, without making humans seem superior. This book does a great job of investigating the conflict of nature and nurture and which is responsible for human nature, I highly recommend it if you are looking for an enlightening read.
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Title: Consilience : The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson, Edward Osborne Wilson ISBN: 067976867X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 30 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Edward Osborne Wilson ISBN: 0674002350 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 04 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson ISBN: 0679768114 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson, Edward Osborne Wilson ISBN: 0393319407 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins ISBN: 0192860925 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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