THE MEANING OF HUMAN EXISTENCE

With his trademark grace and erudition, eminent biologist Edward O. Wilson confronts humanity’s deepest and most engaging questions.

Informed as ever by his decades of scientific inquiry and striking personal empathy, Wilson addresses the broader meaning of our species. Humanity, he argues, arose entirely on its own through an accumulated series of events during evolution.We are not predestined to reach any goal, nor are we answerable to any power but our own and must seek wisdom based on self-understanding. Edward O.Wilson is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, as well as the Pulitzer Prize–winning On Human Nature. For his contributions in science and conservation, he has received more than one hundred awards from around the world, and he remains a professor emeritus at Harvard University.