Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Title: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge Author: Edward O Wilson ISBN: 9780679768678 Publisher: Vintage Published: 1999 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Science & Math 1621606 Publisher Description: An enormous intellectual adventure. In this groundbreaking new book, the American biologist Edward O. Wilson, considered to be one of the world's greatest living scientists, argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for consilience--the proof that everything in our world is organized in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws that comprise the principles underlying every branch of learning. Professor Wilson, the pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, now once again breaks out of the conventions of current thinking. He shows how and why our explosive rise in intellectual mastery of the truths of our universe h