Naturalist / Edward O. Wilson.
- Title
- Naturalist / Edward O. Wilson.
- Published by
- Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2006.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xii, 394 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Recalling his life from a childhood exploring the Gulf Coast of Alabama to a career as a Harvard professor, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilson details how a boyhood enchantment with nature became a lifelong calling. He provides insight into the origin and development of the ideas that have shaped his biological research and defines the central principles of evolutionary biology.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Contents
- Daybreak in Alabama. Paradise Beach ; Send us the boy ; A light in the corner ; A magic kingdom ; To do my duty ; Alabama dreaming ; The hunters ; Good-bye to the South ; Orizaba -- Storyteller. The South Pacific ; The forms of things unknown ; The molecular wars ; Islands are the key ; The Florida Keys experiment ; Ants ; Attaining sociobiology ; The sociobiology controversy ; Biodiversity, biophilia.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Note
- Contains the text of the original 1994 ed. published by Island Press plus an afterword by the author.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain