On Human Nature
by Wilson, Edward O
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0674634411
- ISBN 13
- 9780674634411
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
On Human Nature is a 1979 Pulitzer prize-winning book by the Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson. The book tries to explain how different characteristics of humans and society can be explained from the point of evolution. He explains how evolution has left its traces on the characteristics which are the specialty of human species like use of sex for pleasure, generosity, self-sacrifice and worship.
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- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB16406
- Title
- On Human Nature
- Author
- Wilson, Edward O
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0674634411
- ISBN 13
- 9780674634411
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Sociology, Social Darwinism, Social Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Science;
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