Naturalist

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Recalling his life from a childhood exploring the Gulf Coast of Alabama to a career as a Harvard professor, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilson details how a boyhood enchantment with nature became a lifelong calling. He provides insight into the origin and development of the ideas that have shaped his biological research and defines the central principles of evolutionary biology.

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Full title :Naturalist / Edward O. Wilson.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2006.
Edition:First Island Press pbk. edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Island Press/Shearwater Books
Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006.

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Contains the text of the original 1994 ed. published by Island Press plus an afterword by the author.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781597269360, 1597269360, 9783527635580, 3527635580, 9781642830224, 1642830224
oclc:ocn905969502
LC Classification:QH31.W64
Dewey Decimal:B

Daybreak in Alabama. Paradise Beach ; Send us the boy ; A light in the corner ; A magic kingdom ; To do my duty ; Alabama dreaming ; The hunters ; Good-bye to the South ; Orizaba -- Storyteller. The South Pacific ; The forms of things unknown ; The molecular wars ; Islands are the key ; The Florida Keys experiment ; Ants ; Attaining sociobiology ; The sociobiology controversy ; Biodiversity, biophilia.

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Autobiographies Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & … Naturalistes -- Biographies. -- États-U… Naturalists Naturalists -- Biography. -- United Sta… NATURE -- Essays NATURE -- Reference TRAVEL -- Special Interest United States Wilson, Edward O.