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基本説明
著者のエドワード・O・ウィルソンは昆虫学・島嶼生物学が専門ですが、それを発展させた社会生物学をヒトの行動にあてはめて論じたことで一躍脚光を浴びることになりました。 世界的ベストセラーになっているユバル・ノア・ハラリ著『サピエンス全史』と併せて読んでおきたい一冊です。(2017/01/17)
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Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for his over-reliance on genetics, Wilson unfurls his most expansive and advanced theories on human behaviour. Whether attempting to explicate "the Riddle of the Human Species", warning of "the Collapse of Biodiversity" or creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.", Wilson believes that humanity holds a special position in the known universe. Alarmed, however, that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma in millennia.