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Volume 339:205 July 16, 1998 Number 3
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Consilience: The unity of knowledge

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By Edward O. Wilson. 332 pp. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. $26. ISBN 0-679-45077-7.

Edward O. Wilson has already had three careers and has made major contributions to knowledge in all of them. First, as an entomologist, he elucidated the intricacies of behavior and organization in ant societies. Second, as a sociobiologist, he studied the biologic basis of behavior and organization in human societies. Third, as an environmental activist, he crusaded for the preservation of the natural ecologies that human societies are rapidly destroying. With this book he has launched his fourth career, as a philosopher, attempting to assemble the many issues of concern to the human species into a unified intellectual framework. To . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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