On Human Nature

On Human Nature

Author	E. O. Wilson
Language	English
Subject	Sociobiology, evolutionary psychology
Genre	Science
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Publication date	October 18, 2004 25th Anniversary Edition
ISBN	0-674-01638-6
OCLC	55534964
Dewey Decimal	304.5 22
LC Class	GN365.9 .W54 2004

On Human Nature is a 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning book,^[1] published in 1978 by Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson. The book tries to explain how different characteristics of humans and society can be explained from the point of view of evolution. He explains how evolution has left its traces on the characteristics which are the specialty of human species like generosity, self-sacrifice, worship and the use of sex for pleasure. The book is considered an effort to complete the Darwinian revolution by bringing biological thought into social sciences and humanities.

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↑ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction" (web). pulitzer.org. Retrieved March 13, 2008.

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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (1976–2000)

Why Survive? Being Old in America by Robert Neil Butler (1976) Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (1977) The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (1978) On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson (1979) Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter (1980) Fin-de-siècle Vienna by Carl E. Schorske (1981) The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1982) Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan (1983) The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr (1984) The Good War by Studs Terkel (1985) Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas / Move Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld (1986) Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David K. Shipler (1987) The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1988) A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1989) And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (1990) The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson (1991) The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin (1992) Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills (1993) Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick (1994) The Beak of the Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (1995) The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg (1996) Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger (1997) Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (1998) Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (1999) Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower (2000)

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