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Biophilia
by Edward O Wilson

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Publisher Comments:

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Review:

There's more to this unbuttoned and intellectually playful book than its plea for a conservation of ethic and the preservation of animal species in all their diversity. We get, for example, several autobiographical glimpses into the background of Professor Wilson...We see Professor Wilson as a boy growing up in the Florida panhandle...Elsewhere he astonishes us with a description of the mating dance of the male Emperor of Germany bird of paradise, and the degree of genetic congruity between pygmy chimpanzees and Homo Sapiens.

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E. O. Wilson is the entomologist Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. His science writing for the general public has won him the Pulitzer Prize and his scientific publications have won him the highest honors American science can bestow. He is well equipped to engage a subject dear to nature-lovers which until now has not been identified as a species trait--biophilia. The freshness of Wilson's approach lies in its freedom from the obsessions of the environmentalist movement...While he shares the conservationist ethic of environmentalists, and seeks to impart its practical imperatives, he eschews cultism...Let this highly readable book then be commended to all biophiliacs and technocrats.

Review:

The book consists of a set of nine essays. Although they are masterpieces of prose style, they more effectively illustrate Wilson's own biophilia than his contention that biophilia exists as a general human trait...Wilson moves fluidly among minute observations of life forms ranging from leaf-cutter ants to birds of paradise, artfully pausing for a philosophical reflection here and a folksy anecdote there.

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About the Author

Edward O. Wilsonis Pellegrino University Professor at <>Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Handouml;lldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Table of Contents

1. Prologue

2. Bernhardsdorp

3. The Superoganism

4. The Time Machine

5. The Bird of Paradise

6. The Poetic Species

7. The Serpent

8. The Right Place

9. The Conservation Ethic

10. Surinam

Reading Notes

Acknowledgments

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780674074422
Author:
Wilson, Edward Osborne
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Author:
Wilson, Edward Osborne
Author:
Wilson, Edward O.
Subject:
General
Subject:
Wildlife
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
General science
Subject:
Nature conservation
Subject:
Biology
Copyright:
1984
Publication Date:
January 1986
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
none
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
9.14x5.64x.52 in. .52 lbs.
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