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This revised edition of Human Nature begins a new phase in the most important intellectual controversy of this generation: Is human behavior controlled by the species' biological heritage? Does this heritage limit human destiny?
With characteristic pungency and simplicity of style, the author of Sociobiology challenges old prejudices and current misconceptions about the nature-nurture debate. He shows how evolution has left its traces on the most distinctively human activities, how patterns of generosity, self-sacrifice, and worship, as well as sexuality and aggression, reveal their deep roots in the life histories of primate bands that hunted big game in the last Ice Age. His goal is nothing less than the completion of the Darwinian revolution by bringing biological thought into the center of the social sciences and the humanities. Wilson presents a philosophy that cuts across the usual categories of conservative, liberal, or radical thought. In systematically applying the modern theory of natural selection to human society, he arrives at conclusions far removed from the social Darwinist legacy of the last century.
Sociobiological theory, he explains, is compatible with a broadly humane and egalitarian outlook. Human diversity is to be treasured, not merely tolerated, he argues. Discrimination against ethnic groups, homosexuals, and women is based on a complete misunderstanding of biological fact. But biological facts can never take the place of ethical choices. Once we understand our human nature, we must choose how "human" in the fullest, biological sense, we wish to remain. We cannot make this choice with the aid of external guides or absolute ethical principles, because our very concept of right and wrong is wholly rooted in our own biological past. This paradox is fundamental to the evolution of consciousness in any species; there is no formula for escaping it. The book is published by Harvard University Press.
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Tales from the Ant World
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- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
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"Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony.... Their clashes dwarf Waterloo and Gettysburg", writes Edward O. Wilson in his most finely observed work in decades. In a myrmecological tour to such far-flung destinations as Mozambique and New Guinea, the Gulf of Mexico's Dauphin Island and even his parents' overgrown yard back in Alabama, Wilson thrillingly evokes his nine-decade-long scientific obsession with more than 15,000 ant species.
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Terrible narration, pointless rambling writing.
- De Kara en 12-09-21
De: Edward O. Wilson
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Genesis
- The Deep Origin of Societies
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
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Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. Of these, Wilson demonstrates that at least 17 - among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp - have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation.
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Simply awful
- De Mike A Klotz en 02-07-20
De: Edward O. Wilson
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The Origins of Creativity
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
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"Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species, and its ultimate goal, self-understanding", begins Edward O. Wilson's sweeping examination of the humanities and its relationship to the sciences. By studying fields as diverse as paleontology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience, Wilson demonstrates that human creativity began not 10,000 years ago, as we have long assumed, but over 100,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Age.
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Copy & Paste Book
- De Jiri Klouda en 10-05-18
De: Edward O. Wilson
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Letters to a Young Scientist
- De: Edward O. Wilxon
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
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Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career - both his successes and his failures - and his motivations for becoming a biologist.
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Long on biography, short on advice
- De A. Mandelin en 08-02-18
De: Edward O. Wilxon
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The Creation
- An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
- De: E. O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
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Called "one of the greatest men alive" by the Times of London, E. O. Wilson proposes an historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth's rapidly vanishing biodiversity.
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- De Anonymous User en 01-04-24
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The Future of Life
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Ed Begley Jr.
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Today we understand that our world is infinitely richer than was ever previously guessed. Yet it is so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the century. These two contrasting truths - unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril - have become compellingly clear during the past two decades of research on biological diversity. In his dazzlingly intelligent book, Wilson describes the treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever and how we can save them.
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A scientifically-grounded case for the environment
- De Lucas en 01-24-10
De: Edward O. Wilson
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Half-Earth
- Our Planet's Fight for Life
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
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History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth, a brave work that becomes a radical redefinition of human history. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns of a point of no return that is imminent.
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Important book, but..
- De Rasmus en 09-02-18
De: Edward O. Wilson
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In Search of Nature
- De: Edward O. Wilson
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
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Perhaps more than any other scientist of our century, Edward O. Wilson has scrutinized animals in their natural settings, tweezing out the dynamics of their social organization, their relationship with their environments, and their behavior, not only for what it tells us about the animals themselves, but for what it can tell us about human nature and our own behavior. He has brought the fascinating and sometimes surprising results of these studies to general readers through a remarkable collection of books.
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narration speed way too fast
- De Margaret en 10-12-15
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The Ascent of Gravity
- The Quest to Understand the Force That Explains Everything
- De: Marcus Chown
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
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Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world, yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described, yet it is the least understood. It is a "force" that keeps your feet on the ground, yet no such force actually exists. Gravity, to steal the words of Winston Churchill, is "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma". And penetrating that enigma promises to answer the biggest questions in science: What is space? What is time? What is the universe? And where did it all come from?
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Fine survey for laymen but flawed
- De Michael en 11-30-17
De: Marcus Chown
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The Future of Life
- De: Edward Wilson
- Narrado por: Ed Begley Jr.
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Our world is infinitely richer than previously guessed, yet it is so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the century. In this dazzlingly intelligent and ultimately hopeful work, biologist E.O. Wilson describes what treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever—in many cases animals, insects, and plants we have only just discovered—and what we can do to save them. Wilson explores the ethical and religious bases of the conservation movement and deflates the myth that environmental policy is antithetical to economic growth.
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The Moral Animal
- Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
- De: Robert Wright
- Narrado por: Greg Thornton
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Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics - as well as their implications for our moral codes and public policies.
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Ridiculously Insightful
- De Liron en 10-25-10
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Not Born Yesterday
- The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
- De: Hugo Mercier
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
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Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe - and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion - whether by religious leaders, politicians, or advertisers - fail miserably.
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the audio playback does not work!
- De jonathan a. matus en 02-21-21
De: Hugo Mercier
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre On Human Nature: Revised Edition
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- Lucas Ciabotti Tavora
- 06-19-24
Great knowledge
Good read to remind us we’re nature and there are some treats that aren’t social constructs but survival genes
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- William T. Mendoza
- 05-19-19
Still Relevant
Slightly dated but still excellent. Most of the science still applies. I would recommend it to anyone who has read the Selfish Gene or The Third Chimpanzee.
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- Cornelis
- 05-01-17
wish it we're longer
Left me wanting more so badly. This is the only reason I gave it 4 out of 5. It is masterfully written... ok changed my mind I'll give it 5 stars
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- Arnold
- 06-26-20
Superb! Must have in every book shelves
Grabe! Talagang magsusulat ng at least 15 words! Isn’t it enough to say that this ebook. Deserves to be presnt in every book shelve there is
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- Connor Patterson
- 03-28-21
Fundamental reading for any human (if out of date)
Perhaps this book can only be appreciated fully once you've gained enough vocabulary and education/ life experience to envision all it discusses, and perhaps there are those that will reject many elements out of hand. But as an ecologist and human being this work, which I hadn't even know existed, made connections that I had started to see beforehand and so many that that I had not. It better placed humanity among the animals and other life of this planet and did, as much as any work from 1975 could, describe how evolution and natural selection might play out differently for post-societal animals than it does for most others. This book introduced me to the kin selection hypothesis for explaining homosexuality and altruism and filled a void in my understanding of the world that I hadn't quite realized I was looking to fill. This book is by no means diffinative, as the author make clear, but it should, I think, be viewed as an introduction to being human. In a world full of societies that seem content to leave our own nature as a foggy unknown, so easily manipulated through convenient opportunistic definition, this work provides tentative explainations and a framework of theories that make clearing that fog away more possible than ever. I gave it only four stars to acknowledge that in is almost 50 years out of date and I can't know what effect that has on the "truth" or "plausibly" of it's content now.
I now wish to go back in the series and listen to the previous work: "Sociobiology: The New Synthesis" so I can more fully grasp the concept as they relate to things beyond humanity - if only it was in audio too.
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- Dan Collins
- 11-19-23
Yet Another Intellectual
As a technology professional I find myself in a situation where I am continually in search of people in other domains upon whom I can rely for thoughtful and unbiased consideration. I was hoping this book would be more objective but it is unfortunately biased and as a result, its message weakened and diminished.
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- Paul G. Brown
- 01-07-18
Brilliant, vital scientific treatise for our times
Initially published 40 years ago EO Wilson's On Nature sustains an argument whose resolution weighs so much more heavily on us today. Wilson argues that human cultures are all expressions of (that is, are animated and constrained by) human nature, and that human nature is the product of human biology and of Darwinian evolution. He concludes that we would all be better off unifying or at least combining the humanities (social sciences) and biology to understand our cultures, and decide our collective future.
Marvelous book.
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- Ed Dowding
- 03-11-17
epic validation for smart people like you
You're smart so you think about this already, that's why you're here. This confirms all the ways in which you're right.
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- Bryanoutside
- 11-16-17
Timeless in its relevance to human nature.
An utterly fascinating book! Do not for a second let the age of this text inhibit you from reading it.
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- Douglas
- 07-22-14
A Heralding Voice...
of the neo-Darwinean movement. If you know the work of Pinker, Dawkins, Dennett, Wright and other writers who have expounded on the evidence that an innate, biological human nature is a real and tangible thing (as opposed to the concept of the "blank slate" put forth most famously by Skinner, Watkins and the behaviorists during the early part of the century), you should know the work of Edward O. Wilson, a man who was so far ahead of the now accepted modern decriers of the "tabula rasa" that his early work was deemed scientific heresy. Wilson does not deny the influence of the environment on the genetic basis of human nature, but wipes away the absurd notion that a human being is shaped soley and absolutely by culture and surroundings. On Human Nature is a fine summation of his main ideas and comes highly recommended from these quarters.
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