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Conducts a definitive study of the social structure and symbiotic relationships of termites, social wasps, bees, and ants. More about this book >
How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" In The Meaning of Human Existence, biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. More about this book >
Reading of Edward O. Wilson's The Meaning of Human Existence at 2014 NBA Finalists Reading
Edward O. Wilson has written over twenty books on the natural sciences. Over the course of his career, he has been awarded two Pulitzer Prizes, for On Human Nature, and, with Bert Hölldobler, The Ants; the US National Medal of Science; the Crafoord Prize; Japan’s International Prize for Biology; the Presidential Medal and Nonino Prize of Italy; and the Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society. For his contributions to conservation biology, he has received the Audubon Medal of the National Audubon Society and the Gold Medal of the Worldwide Fund for Nature. He was a Finalist for the National Book Award in 1972 for The Insect Societies.
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