The second dilemma can be articulated in the following way: is human behaviour controlled by the species biological heritage -and if so, does this biological heritage limit human destiny? Can science peer through the mist of explanations which do not possess the correct level of abstraction and contribute to a better framing of the problems at stake? The species lacks any goal external to its own biological nature’ (pg. The first dilemma Wilson wants to discuss in the book is that ‘we have no particular place to go. 300 years ago have not fundamentally changed those deeply ingrained patterns. 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent and the Industrial Revolution ca. The underlying assumptions are clear: Homo Sapiens is a mammal and for most of its evolutionary history has been characterized by behaviours learned and perfected as hunter-gatherer. It revolves essentially around the idea of sociobiology – the attempt to apply a reductionist agenda to the social sciences and hence to link them with biology. Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize (1979) in consideration of the deep questions it poses and the preliminary answers it tries to furnish. The book “On Human Nature” 1 by Harvard myrmecologist Edmund O. Home › Book Review › Edward Wilson: ‘On Human Nature’ Acemoglu and Robinson – Why Nations Fail.Code-ification of money markets and trust.Doudna – A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution.

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