Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
by Edward O. Wilson, Edward Osborne Wilson
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- ISBN 10
- 067976867X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679768678
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Edward O. Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1929. He received his B.S. and M.S. in biology from the University of Alabama and, in 1955, his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard, where he has since taught, and where he has received both of its college-wide teaching awards. He is currently Research Professor and Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, OOn Human Natur e (1978) and The Ants (1990, with Bert Hölldobler), as well as the recipient of many fellowships, honors, and awards, including the 1977 National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1990), the International Prize for Biology from Japan (1993), and, for his conservation efforts, the Gold Medal of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (1990) and the Audubon Medal of the National Audubon Society (1995). He is on the Board of Directors of The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, and the American Museum of Natural History, and gives many lectures throughout the world. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with his wife, Irene.
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- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
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- Title
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
- Author
- Edward O. Wilson, Edward Osborne Wilson
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 067976867X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679768678
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- March 30, 1999
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