Consilience by Edward O Wilson Apr1999 by Edward O Wilson PAPERBACK

Brand new product\nFree UK standard delivery 2-3 days from despatch\nTracked secure courier\nPlease check delivery times at top of listing\nBookCurl is a family bookseller - thank you for your business\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u2022 A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them. \u2014The Wall Street Journal \n\nOne of our greatest scientists\u2014and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants\u2014gives 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.\n\nUsing 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 princit