Title:
Scientist : E.O. Wilson : a life in nature
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), charts ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780385545556
Abstract:
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents this fully authorized--and timely-biography of the Harvard biologist and naturalist who has become a leading voice on the crucial importance to all life of biodiversity and has worked tirelessly to synthesize the fields of science and the humanities in a fruitful way.
Contents:
Specimen days -- Lost worlds -- Natural selection -- Stamp collectors and fast young guns -- Speaking pheromone -- Keys -- Full Sweep -- Ambivalences -- Human natures -- The deep things -- Crossing the line -- Reprising linnaeus -- Origami.
Personal Subject:
Genre:
Language:
English
