Consilience: the unity of knowledge - Edward O. Wilson

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• Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing tradition of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.
• A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them.--The Wall Street Journal.
• A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them. -The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists--and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants --gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career.
• In Consilience (a word that originally meant jumping together), Edward O.
• Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities.
• Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields.
• He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture.
• He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita.
• Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.