Name: THE SOCIAL INSTINCT: E. O. WILSON AND THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN NATURE (en Inglés)
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THE SOCIAL INSTINCT: E. O. WILSON AND THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN NATURE (en Inglés)

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Kriger, Boris

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9798172630118

THE SOCIAL INSTINCT: E. O. WILSON AND THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN NATURE (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "THE SOCIAL INSTINCT: E. O. WILSON AND THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN NATURE (en Inglés)"

A boy in Alabama peels the bark off a rotting tree and finds a colony of small yellow ants that smell of lemon. Sixty years later the same man is standing in front of a scientific congress while somebody empties a jug of water over his head. Edward Osborne Wilson spent his life doing one thing with unusual nerve. He looked at something very small, very closely, and then insisted that the pattern he had found held one rung further up. Ants, then all social insects, then all social animals, then human beings, then the whole of human knowledge. Each step was more thrilling and less defensible than the one before it, and he took every step anyway. This book follows that ascent honestly. It scores the rungs. It shows where Wilson was gloriously right and where he was over his skis, why the fight his 1975 book started was never really a fight about evidence, and what happened to a decent man who decided, out of fear, to stay quiet about a colleague he should have opposed. It is also, unavoidably, a book about ants: their chemistry, their arithmetic, their bad marriages, and their strange claim on our attention. Along the way it takes up the question Wilson never stopped asking and never quite answered. Is there such a thing as human nature, and if there is, what kind of thing is it? A set of instincts? A statistical tendency? A leash long enough that nobody notices it is there? Or a word we use because the alternative is admitting we do not know what we are talking about. Warm, argumentative, and cheerfully unimpressed by orthodoxies of any political color, this is the story of a half-blind naturalist who wanted to unify all of knowledge and settled, in the meantime, for describing four hundred species of ant. Keywords: sociobiology, human nature, evolutionary biology, E. O. Wilson, biodiversity, island biogeography, scientific controversy