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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • \"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them.\" —The Wall Street Journal
One of our greatest 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.
Editions of Consilience
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780679450771
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- ISBN 9780679768678
- EBook
- ISBN 9780804154062
- AudioStreaming
- ISBN 9780525633495
- AudioStreaming
- ISBN 9780525633501
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • \"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them.\" —The Wall Street Journal
One of our greatest 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.
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What is Consilience about?
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • \"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them.\" —The Wall Street Journal
One of our greatest 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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Consilience?
Mathematics and Science > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Where can I read a sample of Consilience?
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Consilience?
Edward O. Wilson
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Consilience is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780679450771) and paperback(ISBN 9780679768678) and ebook(ISBN 9780804154062) and audiostreaming(ISBN 9780525633495) and audiostreaming(ISBN 9780525633501)
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