Books by Edward O. Wilson
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This text, based on two scientists' lifelong observations, provides an account of the social structure and evolutionary achievement of these remarkable insects. It covers topics including co-operation, reproduction, hunting, and building of temperature-controlled nests.
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Explores strategies for quantifying, understanding, and protecting biodiversity. This volume describes an understanding of how megacenters of diversity are formed, maintained, and lost; what can be learned from mounting bird extinctions; and how conservation efforts for neotropic ...
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Contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. A cumulative index for the 57 volumes is also ...
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From this historic collaboration between a beloved naturalist and a great American photographer emerges a South we ve never encountered before.
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National Book Award Finalist. 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?
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In The Earth and I, scientist, inventor, and pioneering environmentalist James Lovelock brings together a richly illustrated collection of essays on earth and human science from 12 of today's leading thinkers. From stars to cells, quantum theory to capitalism, ancient fossils to ...
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Tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. This work describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity is beyond the scope of anything we have known before. It also addresses the explosion of the field of conservation biology and ...
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9780141931739 |
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en |
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26 April 2001 by Penguin |
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General Audience |
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Penguin Press Science |
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A brave expression of hope, a visionary blueprint for saving the planet. Stephen Greenblatt
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Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the 21st century. E.O. Wilson describes exactly which treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever and what we can do right now to ...
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