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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―biophilia―is the very essence of our humanity and binds us to all other living species.

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Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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“There’s more to this unbuttoned and intellectually playful book than its plea for a conservation of ethic and the preservation of animal species in all their diversity. We get, for example, several autobiographical glimpses into the background of Professor Wilson... We see Professor Wilson as a boy growing up in the Florida panhandle... Elsewhere he astonishes us with a description of the mating dance of the male Emperor of Germany bird of paradise, and the degree of genetic congruity between pygmy chimpanzees and Homo sapiens.”Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times

“E. O. Wilson is the entomologist Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. His science writing for the general public has won him the Pulitzer Prize and his scientific publications have won him the highest honors American science can bestow. He is well equipped to engage a subject dear to nature-lovers which until now has not been identified as a species trait―biophilia. The freshness of Wilson’s approach lies in its freedom from the obsessions of the environmentalist movement... While he shares the conservationist ethic of environmentalists, and seeks to impart its practical imperatives, he eschews cultism... Let this highly readable book then be commended to all biophiliacs and technocrats.”Hiram Caton, Times Literary Supplement

Biophilia is an immensely readable book. Wilson is a master storyteller, skillful at evoking exotic scenes.”Washington Post Book World

“A fine memoir by one of America’s foremost evolutionary biologists...erudite, elegant, and poetic. E. O. Wilson defines biophilia as ‘the innate tendency [in human beings] to focus on life and lifelike process. To an extent still undervalued in philosophy and religion, our existence depends on this propensity, our spirit is woven from it, hopes rise on its currents.’ Scientifically demonstrating this human propensity would be a task beyond the scope of today’s biology, and Wilson wisely eschews that course. Instead, he relies on his own experiences and feelings as a field biologist, cleverly interweaving them with the facts, history, and philosophy of evolutionary biology and an eclectic set of cultural observations.”Paul R. Ehrlich, Natural History

“Wilson’s own empathy with things illuminates these essays with fresh perceptions of everyday matters... They are masterpieces of prose style... Wilson moves fluidly among minute observations of life forms ranging from leaf-cutter ants to birds of paradise, artfully pausing for a philosophical reflection here and a folksy anecdote there.”John Wilkes, Los Angeles Times

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  • PublisherHarvard University Press
  • Publication date1984
  • ISBN 10 0674074424
  • ISBN 13 9780674074422
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages157
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