The creation : an appeal to save life on earth
- Title
- The creation : an appeal to save life on earth / Edward O. Wilson.
- Published by
- New York : Norton, [2006], ©2006.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- viii, 175 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "The Creation is a timely book about the survival of life on this planet, which E. O. Wilson demonstrates is more endangered than ever before. Drawing on his own personal experiences as a world-leading biologist, he prophesies that at least half the species of plants and animals on Earth could either be gone or fated for early extinction by the end of our present century. Written in the form of an impassioned letter to a Southern Baptist pastor, The Creation demonstrates that science and religion need not be warring antagonists."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Contents
- I. The creation -- 1. Letter to a Southern Baptist pastor : salutation -- 2. Ascending to nature -- 3. What is nature? -- 4. Why care? -- 5. Alien invaders from planet Earth -- 6. Two magnificent animals -- 7. Wild nature and human nature -- II. Decline and redemption -- 8. The pauperization of Earth -- 9. Denial and its risks -- 10. End game -- III. What science has learned -- 11. Biology is the study of nature -- 12. The fundamental laws of biology -- 13. Exploration of a little-known planet -- IV. Teaching the creation -- 14. How to learn biology and how to teach it -- 15. How to raise a naturalist -- 16. Citizen science -- V. Reaching across -- 17. An alliance for life.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-173).