Autor: WILSON Edward O. WILSON

Biophilia is Edward O. Wilson’s most personal book, an evocation of his own response to nature and an eloquent statement of the conservation ethic. Wilson argues that our natural affinity for life-bi …

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 …

When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. Although voted by officers and fellows of t …

Southern Wonder explores Alabama s amazing biological diversity, the reasons for the large number of species in the state, and the importance of their preservation.Alabama ranks fifth in the nation i …

Stephen J. Gould declared G. Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him “one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called a ge …

An essential, up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change that will serve as an immediate call to action The physical and biological impacts of climat …

Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Holldobler and E. O …

"Biophilia" is the term coined by Edward O. Wilson to describe what he believes is humanity’s innate affinity for the natural world. In his landmark book Biophilia, he examined how our tend …

Edward O. Wilson-winner of two Pulitzer prizes, champion of biodiversity, and Faculty Emeritus at Harvard University-is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. Yet his c …

Quels sont les mecanismes de l’evolution ? D’ou vient la diversite, la proliferation des especes ? Pourquoi la nature ne cesse-t-elle d’inventer de nouvelles formes de vie ? Quel est l’effet des gran …

"Perhaps more than any other scientist of our century, Edward O. Wilson has scrutinized animals in their natural settings, tweezing out the dynamics of their social organization, their relations …

Forgotten Grasslands of the South is a literary and scientific case study of some of the biologically richest and most endangered ecosystems in North America. Eminent ecologist Reed Noss tells the st …

Before the transition in forestry can be made from conventional approaches of the past century to the ecosystem approach of the next, a consensus must be reached on the meaning of "sustainable f …

"Poised to inspire a new generation of naturalists." – Publishers Weekly A vibrant graphic adaptation of the classic science memoir Regarded as one of the world’s preeminent biologists, Edw …

Long considered one of the most provocative and demanding major works on human sociobiology, Genes, Mind, and Culture introduces the concept of gene-culture coevolution. It has been out of print for …

Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world. John James Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1838, …

The world”s first national park, Yellowstone is a symbol of nature”s enduring majesty and the paradigm of protected areas across the globe. But Yellowstone is constantly changing. How we understand …

Spanning evolutionary science from its inception to its latest findings, from discoveries and data to philosophy and history, this book is the most complete, authoritative, and inviting one-volume in …

Asked to name an insect society, most of us–whether casual or professional students of nature–quickly point to one of the so-called eusocial marvels: the ant colony, the beehive, the termite mound, …

In this landmark volume, an international group of scientists has synthesized their collective expertise and insight into a newly unified vision of insect societies and what they can reveal about how …