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Mar 21, 2012 · In his new book, The Social Conquest of Earth, E.O. Wilson explains his theory of everything—how hominids evolved, why war is common, how social insects became social, and why ants and bees and ...
- Edward O. Wilson’s New Take on Human Nature | Smithsonian
In his newly published The Social Conquest of the Earth—the...
- Edward O. Wilson’s New Take on Human Nature | Smithsonian
May 11, 2012 · THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH. By Edward O. Wilson. Illustrated. 330 pp. Liveright Publishing/W. W. Norton & Company. $27.95. Paul Bloom is a professor of psychology at Yale and the author of ...
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In his newly published The Social Conquest of the Earth—the 27th book from this two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize—Wilson argues the nest is central to understanding the ecological ...
Apr 13, 2012 · In his new book, "The Social Conquest of Earth," renowned scientist Edward O. Wilson sets out to answer these questions once and for all. Scientific advances of the past two decades, he argues ...
"The Social Conquest of Earth is a huge, deep, thrilling work, presenting a radically new but cautiously hopeful view of human evolution, human nature, and human society. No one but E. O. Wilson could bring together such a brilliant synthesis of biology and the humanities, to shed light on the origins of language, religion, art, and all of ...
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Wilson became a household name in 1975 when he published the book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. The book, a 700-page doorstop, is still mandatory reading for any student of animal behaviour. However, Wilson’s extension of his argument about the evolution of social behaviour to humans resulted in a tirade of hyperbolic accusations of racism ...
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The Social Conquest of Earth is a 2012 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson. Wilson adapted the title of Paul Gauguin 's famous mural as a theme -- "What are we?", "Where did we come from?", "Where are we going?"—for discussing his topic of eusocial behavior in several arthropod taxa and a few mammalian species, and its role in making humans as a species unique.
