
The Social Conquest of Earth
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Hogan
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By:
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Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson is one of the world’s preeminent biologists, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the author of more than 25 books. The defining work in a remarkable career, The Social Conquest of Earth boldly addresses age-old questions (Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going?) while delving into the biological sources of morality, religion, and the creative arts.
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Starts very strong but undermines its self
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Wow, Wilson has a lot to say and boy can he write.
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Terrific summarization of our social development
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really enjoying
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Engaging
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Excellent scientific discussion on social development, especially in regard to insects.
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What did you love best about The Social Conquest of Earth?
Wilson redeemed himself for me with this book. As a psychological scientist, I always have been a bit rattled by his glib use of the word instinct, because it has never been an explanation of behavior or adaptive adjustment to the changing world. He clarified what he sees as the constant interplay of the gene enabling machinery of life in the adaptation of individuals and social groups. His explanation of epigenesis in adaption, the regultion of gene expression, put it all into proper comprehensible perspective. I will still avoid the word instinct, but he has correction outlined the limits of adaptation in the continuous interplay of coding gene expression during development and adjustment to the environment. For me, he made me see with great clarity that learning, differing as it does in different organisms and at different point in development and aging, is just another gene -expression enabled mechanism of adaptation. Inherited biological processes set limits on individual learning, as do diseases that are partly related to inhereted (or mutation produce) processes. This is a wonderful, lyrical at times, book of science that conveys profound insights into issues of existential and practical concern for all people.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No, it took a bit more than a weekend of walking in parks and doing chores.Any additional comments?
I think people with a bit better than average knowledge of modern biology will get the most from this book. The reader, however, is superb, and does justice to Wilson's sometimes beautiful prose. This is a book to ponder in full again after some additional reflection.Biology as the Door to Knowing Our Destiny
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An exploration of the human condition—hubris and a superiority complex notwithstanding.
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A wonderful compliment to selfish gene
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mixed bag
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