On Human Nature : : Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface / / Edward O. Wilson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Wilson, Edward O.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the underst...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface, 2004
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Dilemma
• Chapter 2. Heredity
• Chapter 3. Development
• Chapter 4. Emergence
• Chapter 5. Aggression
• Chapter 6. Sex
• Chapter 7. Altruism
• Chapter 8. Religion
• Chapter 9. Hope
• Glossary
• Notes
• Index