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Conducts a definitive study of the social structure and symbiotic relationships of termites, social wasps, bees, and ants

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9780674454903 | Belknap Pr, January 1, 1971, cover price $142.00 | About this edition: Conducts a definitive study of the social structure and symbiotic relationships of termites, social wasps, bees, and ants

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9780674454958 | Belknap Pr, September 1, 1974, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Conducts a definitive study of the social structure and symbiotic relationships of termites, social wasps, bees, and ants

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9780878939268 | Sinauer Associates Inc, June 1, 1971, cover price $31.95

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9780674000896 | 25 anv edition (Belknap Pr, March 24, 2000), cover price $115.00
9780674816213 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 1975, cover price $55.00

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9780674002357 | 25 anv edition (Belknap Pr, March 24, 2000), cover price $58.00

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Challenges perpetuated misconceptions about the nature-nurture controversy by examining hereditary biological controls on human behavior and the possibility of sociobiological limitations on human destiny

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9780674634411 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1978, cover price $35.50 | About this edition: Challenges perpetuated misconceptions about the nature-nurture controversy by examining hereditary biological controls on human behavior and the possibility of sociobiological limitations on human destiny

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9780674016385 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 18, 2004, cover price $30.00
9780674634428 | Harvard Univ Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Challenges perpetuated misconceptions about the nature-nurture controversy by examining hereditary biological controls on human behavior and the possibility of sociobiological limitations on human destiny
9780553262155 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, April 1, 1986), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Challenges perpetuated misconceptions about the nature-nurture controversy by examining hereditary biological controls on human behavior and the possibility of sociobiological limitations on human destiny

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Product Description: In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects' ergonomic efficiency, they go beyond the concentration of previous researchers on the physiological mechanisms of the insects and turn our attention instead to the scale and efficiency of the insects' division of labor...read more

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9780691082103 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1978, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects.

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Wilson's monumental work on the biological basis of social behavior in all species from amoeba colonies to human societies has been trimmed to its essential argument and most compelling examples

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9780674816237 | Abridged edition (Belknap Pr, April 30, 1980), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Wilson's monumental work on the biological basis of social behavior in all species from amoeba colonies to human societies has been trimmed to its essential argument and most compelling examples

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9780674816244 | Belknap Pr, February 1, 1980, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: Wilson's monumental work on the biological basis of social behavior in all species from amoeba colonies to human societies has been trimmed to its essential argument and most compelling examples

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Product Description: ¿La conducta humana está dominada por la herencia biológica? Con su agudeza y claridad características, Edward O. Wilson muestra cómo la evolución ha dejado huellas en las actividades y actitudes más característicamente humanas...read more

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9789681604523 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1980, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: ¿La conducta humana está dominada por la herencia biológica?

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Analyzes the reciprocative relationship between genes in individuals and the production of culture and shows how predictions about genetic evolution within a cultural pattern can be made

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9789812562746 | 25 anv edition (World Scientific Pub Co Inc, September 30, 2005), cover price $180.00
9780674344754 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1981, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Analyzes the reciprocative relationship between genes in individuals and the production of culture and shows how predictions about genetic evolution within a cultural pattern can be made

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The eminent biologist reflects on his own response to nature and the aesthetic aspects of his exploration of natural systems in an intensely personal essay that examines the essential links between mankind and the rest of the living world (view table of contents)

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9780674074415 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The eminent biologist reflects on his own response to nature and the aesthetic aspects of his exploration of natural systems in an intensely personal essay that examines the essential links between mankind and the rest of the living world

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9780674074422 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1986), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: The eminent biologist reflects on his own response to nature and the aesthetic aspects of his exploration of natural systems in an intensely personal essay that examines the essential links between mankind and the rest of the living world

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Essays discuss the importance of biodiversity, ecological threats, conservation monitoring, preservation, technology, and the prospects for the future
By National Academy of Sciences (corporate author), National Forum on BioDiversity (other contributor), Frances M. Peter, Smithsonian Institution (corporate author) and Edward O. Wilson (editor)

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9780309037396 | Natl Academy Pr, March 1, 1988, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the importance of biodiversity, ecological threats, conservation monitoring, preservation, technology, and the prospects for the future

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Product Description: Writing Natural History is the edited record of four public dialogues held at the University of Utah in 1988 between eminent writers in the fields of natural history. In these interchanges the writers discussed their traditions, perspectives, values, purposes, techniques, and personal insights...read more

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9780874803235 | Univ of Utah Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Writing Natural History is the edited record of four public dialogues held at the University of Utah in 1988 between eminent writers in the fields of natural history.

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Product Description: Científico viajero y buen narrador, Wilson alterna la descripción de diversos ámbitos de la naturaleza con reflexiones sobre el origen común de la ciencia y la poesía, para hablarnos de la organización de las hormigas, de la presencia de la serpiente en las ciencias y las humanidades, de la belleza del ave del paraíso o de la inteligencia de los cerdos...read more

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9789681630867 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 1989, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Científico viajero y buen narrador, Wilson alterna la descripción de diversos ámbitos de la naturaleza con reflexiones sobre el origen común de la ciencia y la poesía, para hablarnos de la organización de las hormigas, de la presencia de la serpiente en las ciencias y las humanidades, de la belleza del ave del paraíso o de la inteligencia de los cerdos.

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Discusses the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of ants

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9780674040755 | Belknap Pr, March 28, 1990, cover price $148.00 | About this edition: Discusses the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of ants
9783540520924 | Ill edition (Springer Verlag, March 1, 1990), cover price $259.00 | About this edition: Making up nearly 15 per cent of the entire terrestrial animal biomass, ants are impressive not only in quantitative terms, they also fascinate by their highly organized and complex social system.

Product Description: Edward O. Wilson is one of the world's most distinguished and controversial scientists. Through his books and lectures, Wilson has changed the way scientists and nonscientists alike view the natural world by fueling their enthusiasm for science and showing them its immediacy for their everyday lives...read more

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9780674239524 | Vhs edition (Harvard Univ Pr, June 1, 1990), cover price $39.50 | About this edition: Edward O.

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Product Description: This resource provides students with review materials for each chapter.

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9780393964790 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1993, cover price $17.05 | About this edition: This resource provides students with review materials for each chapter.

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Product Description: View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" "In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon. There in the perfect bowl of the night sky, untouched by light from any human source, a thunderstorm sends its premonitory signal and begins a slow journey to the observer, who thinks: the world is about to change...read more

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9780674212992 | Har/vhs gf edition (Belknap Pr, October 1, 1993), cover price $60.50 | About this edition: View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" "In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon.

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9781559631471 | Reissue edition (Shearwater Books, March 1, 1995), cover price $50.00

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Combining autobiographical accounts with scientific lore, an in-depth study of the world of ants describes the myrmecological society and its relevance to human existence

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9780674485259 | Belknap Pr, August 5, 1994, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Combining autobiographical accounts with scientific lore, an in-depth study of the world of ants describes the myrmecological society and its relevance to human existence

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9780674485266 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $30.00

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The author, a professor of entomology at Harvard, looks back on his life, education, and career, and discusses his work.

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9781559632881 | Shearwater Books, October 1, 1994, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: The author, a professor of entomology at Harvard, looks back on his life, education, and career, and discusses his work

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9781597260886 | Island Pr, April 24, 2006, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The author, a professor of entomology at Harvard, looks back on his life, education, and career, and discusses his work.
9780446671996 | Grand Central Pub, December 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The author, a professor of entomology at Harvard, looks back on his life, education, and career, and discusses his work

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Product Description: Pulitzer Prize Winning author Edward O. Wilson contributes two of four selections from Harvard University Press in this anthology of important writings on the evolution of human cognition. In clear, non-technical language, the mind's biological and behavioural roots are traced from their primitive beginnings in our ape-like ancestors to the explosive growth of our modern linguistic-based consciousness...read more

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9781879557352 | Audio Scholar, July 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Pulitzer Prize Winning author Edward O.

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By Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla (editor), Don E. Wilson (editor) and Edward O. Wilson (editor)

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9780309052276 | Joseph Henry Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $34.95

Paperback:

9780309055840 | Natl Academy Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $29.95

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Focusing on the interrelationship of wild nature and human nature, a collection of short writings and essays explores 'Animal Nature, Human Nature,' 'The Patterns of Nature,' and 'Nature's Abundance'

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9781559632157 | Island Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Focusing on the interrelationship of wild nature and human nature, a collection of short writings and essays explores 'Animal Nature, Human Nature,' 'The Patterns of Nature,' and 'Nature's Abundance'

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9781559632164 | Island Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Focusing on the interrelationship of wild nature and human nature, a collection of short writings and essays explores 'Animal Nature, Human Nature,' 'The Patterns of Nature,' and 'Nature's Abundance'

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The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning expert on sociobiology and biodiversity argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge in the face of the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge over the past two centuries. Book available.

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9780786216079 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 1998), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: An expert on sociobiology and biodiversity argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge in the face of the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge over the past two centuries
9780679450771 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1998), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An expert on sociobiology and biodiversity argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge in the face of the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge over the past two centuries

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9780679768678 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1999), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An expert on sociobiology and biodiversity argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge in the face of the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge over the past two centuries

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9781879557550 | Abridged edition (Audio Scholar, October 1, 1999), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge in the face of the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge over the past two centuries.

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9780393319408 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1999), cover price $18.95

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Product Description: Published by The New York State Biodiversity Research Institute and The New York State Museum, this introduction to conservation biology is intended to educate young people about the importance of biodiversity today, the threats to it and what we can do about these threats...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781555572105 | New York State Museum, May 1, 1999, cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Published by The New York State Biodiversity Research Institute and The New York State Museum, this introduction to conservation biology is intended to educate young people about the importance of biodiversity today, the threats to it and what we can do about these threats.

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