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In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species and posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin t... Full description
Table of Contents:
- 1. The reason we exist: The meaning of meaning
- Solving the riddle of the human species
- Evolution and our inner conflict
- 2. The unity of knowledge: The new enlightenment
- The all-importance of the humanities
- The driving force of social evolution
- 3. Other worlds: Humanity lost in a pheromone world
- The superorganisms
- Why microbes rule the galaxy
- A portrait of E.T.
- The collapse of biodiversity
- 4. Idols of the mind: Instinct
- Religion
- Free will
- 5. A human future: Alone and free in the universe.