Description |
268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), charts ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Specimen days -- Lost worlds -- Natural selection -- Stamp collectors and fast young guns -- Speaking pheromone -- Keys -- Full sweep -- Ambivalences -- Human natures -- The deep things -- Crossing the line -- Reprising Linnaeus -- Origami. |
Summary |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents this fully authorized--and timely-biography of the Harvard biologist and naturalist who has become a leading voice on the crucial importance to all life of biodiversity and has worked tirelessly to synthesize the fields of science and the humanities in a fruitful way. |
Subject |
Wilson, Edward O.
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Naturalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Entomologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Genre |
Biographies.
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Added Title |
E.O. Wilson : a life in nature |
ISBN |
9780385545556 (hardcover) |
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038554555X (hardcover) |
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