You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, FLAC, MPEG4, MP3, WAV, AIFF (compression ISO, ZIP, IMG, TAR.Z, DMG, RAR)
Total pages original book: 208
Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 18M45S (4.8 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
Other categories, genre or collection: Philosophy Of Science, Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge, Anthropology