Author(s): Edward O. Wilson (Pellegrino University Research Professor, HArvard University, USA)

Science

Twenty-five years after its first publication, Harvard University Press has re-released Edward O. Wilson's classic work, "On Human Nature. A double Pulitzer Prize winner, Wilson is a writer of effortless grace and stylish succinctness and this is one of his finest, most important books...A highly influential, elegantly written book". In his new Preface E.O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how "The Insect Societies" led him to write "Sociobiology," and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior.