Most Popular Books by Edward O Wilson

Diese von den beiden weltberühmten Experten geschriebene, reich illustrierte Naturgeschichte führt in die faszinierende Welt der Ameisen. Sie erfahren von der Artenvielfalt, von typischen Verhaltensweisen, von der effektiven Zusammenarbeit und den Verständigungsmöglichkeiten innerhalb der Kolonien und von den perfekt geplanten kämpferischen Auseinandersetzungen mit anderen Völkern. Die Autoren lassen Sie an der Spannung und dem Vergnügen teilhaben, welches sie bei ihrer Erforschung der Ameisen erlebt haben. Der Text wurde für die 2. deutsche Neuauflage von Bert Hölldobler auf den aktuellen Stand gebracht und umfangreich ergänzt. Zahlreiche zusätzliche neue Farbtafeln illustrieren die Welt der Ameisen noch beeindruckender. Diese 3. Auflage wurde gegenüber der Vorauflage noch einmal korrigiert. Die 1.Auflage wurde 1995 von bild der wissenschaft als Wissenschaftssachbuch des Jahres ausgezeichnet.

Cette collection a pour vocation de mettre le vivant au cœur d’éclairages ou de rêveries transdisciplinaires de tous les temps : éthologues, philosophes, zoologues, ethnologues, systématiciens, folkloristes, naturalistes, explorateurs et créateurs (romanciers, poètes, illustrateurs) pourront s’y rencontrer dans le buisson foisonnant des espèces dont le devenir est l’un des enjeux majeurs de la nôtre. Biophilia est emprunté au titre éponyme de Edward O. Wilson qui inaugure donc tout naturellement la collection. (Fabienne Raphoz)

Woher kommen wir? Was sind wir? Wohin gehen wir? Die Antworten des großen Biologen Edward O. Wilson auf die Fragen unseres Lebens. Mehr als jemals zuvor liegt die Geschichte in unserer Hand. Sind wir dabei, die Evolution zu beseitigen, indem wir einen Menschen schaffen, wie er unseren Wünschen entspricht? Wilson ist der tiefen Überzeugung, dass wir keinen größeren Fehler begehen könnten. Der Sinn des menschlichen Lebens bleibt immer gebunden an die Natur, die den Menschen zu dem werden ließ, was er sein kann. „Wilson schreibt mit einer humanen Eloquenz, die uns alle anspricht.“ Oliver Sacks

From this historic collaboration between a beloved naturalist and a great American photographer emerges a South we’ve never encountered before. Entranced by Edward O. Wilson’s mesmerizing evocation of his Southern childhood in The Naturalist and Anthill, Alex Harris approached the scientist about collaborating on a book about Wilson’s native world of Mobile, Alabama. Perceiving that Mobile was a city small enough to be captured through a lens yet old enough to have experienced a full epic cycle of tragedy and rebirth, the photographer and the naturalist joined forces to capture the rhythms of this storied Alabama Gulf region through a swirling tango of lyrical words and breathtaking images. With Wilson tracing his family’s history from the Civil War through the Depression—when mule-driven wagons still clogged the roads—to Mobile’s racial and environmental struggles to its cultural triumphs today, and with Harris stunningly capturing the mood of a radically transformed city that has adapted to the twenty-first century, the book becomes a universal story, one that tells us where we all come from and why we are here.

本书主要内容是用生物学的理论来研究社会学,即用社会学的观点去“拟人化”地研究自然界中的动物。本书主要材料来源是美国科学院院士威尔逊的《社会生物学》1980年缩节本.

Gli antichi greci ci hanno insegnato che esiste un ordine intrinseco che governa il cosmo in cui viviamo e le sue leggi. Nel Settecento i grandi spiriti enciclopedici avevano l''ambizione di confrontare le proprie conoscenze con l''immensità dello scibile, mentre gli studiosi di oggi si occupano di discipline sempre più ristrette e specialistiche. Il biologo statunitense Edward O. Wilson, uno dei maggiori scienziati degli ultimi decenni, sostiene in questo libro la necessità di coniugare lo spirito universalistico del passato con la scienza moderna e il bisogno di giungere a una unitarietà delle principali discipline scientifiche e umanistiche, nella convinzione che tutto nell''universo è organizzato secondo un numero ristretto di leggi naturali fondamentali che comprendono i principi basilari di ogni ramo del sapere. Fondando la sua riflessione su fisica, biologia, antropologia, psicologia, religione, filosofia e arte, Wilson ci mostra perché la concezione unitaria dei primi pensatori greci e gli obiettivi originari dell''Illuminismo siano di nuovo attuali e come sia possibile trovare un minimo comune denominatore fra scienza e discipline umanistiche.

La sociobiología puede ser uno de los más interesantes e importantes conceptos nuevos, relativo a la gente y a su conducta, de nuestra época. La sociobiología afirma que toda conducta social tiene una base biológica que es genética. Los sociobiólogos son neodarwinistas que prestan más atención al origen de la conducta de las especies que a su evolución anatómica. Los darwinistas, defensores de la teoría de la selección natural, y los mendelianos, que propugnan la evolución mediante mutaciones genéticas favorables, han sostenido interminables debates durante décadas. En esta obra, el profesor E. O. Wilson presenta un análisis reconciliador de estos descubrimientos en sociobiología, basado en la síntesis de unos elementos científicos que se complementan. Wilson describe específicamente los modelos de conducta en numerosas especies distintas de animales - agresión, cuidado de las crías, cooperación, altruismo y otras características básicas.

El exito obtenido por la Historia del tiempo, de Stephen Hawking, propicio la creacion, en 1991, de esta coleccion de divulgacion cientifica que fue dirigida durante largo tiempo por dos personas de formacion humanistica: de ahi ciertas contaminaciones al inicio de la coleccion. Sin embargo, cuando Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron se hizo cargo de ella, dio un aprobado a la gestion anterior. En esta coleccion, quiza la mas ambiciosa de todas las de divulgacion cientifica que se editan en espanol, se han publicado obras de Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Sagan, lan Stewart, Edward O. Wilson, Antonio Damasio, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Ilya Prigogine, John D. Barrow, Rita Levi Montalcini, Richard P. Feynman, Roger Penrose, Steven Weinberg, Rachel Carson, Francisco Garcia Olmedo, Francisco Yndurain o Jose Manuel Sanchez Ron. Apasionante relato a traves del tiempo, que traza los procesos que crean nuevas especies en estallidos de radiacion adaptativa y senala las catastrofes que han interrumpido la evolucion y hanreducido la diversidad mundial durante los ultimos 600 millones de anos.

Simplified Chinese edition of The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson, who was regarded as one of the world''s preeminent biologists and naturalists.

The imported fire ant, Solenopsis saevissima richteri Forel, is the southernmost race of a widespread and highly variable South American ant. It was introduced into the port of Mobile, Alabama, sometime around 1918 and by 1949 had spread to parts of Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana. 2. A great deal of color variation from nest to nest has been noted in the Gulf States population. This includes an extreme blackish phase referable to the original description of richteri, an extreme reddish phase referable to no described form, and intermediates between the two. This color variation is correlated with differences in size of the ants and in appearance and proportion of their nests. 3. The variation has a genetic basis. It is suggested in this study that the variation can be explained most readily on the basis of multiple pleiotropic alleles. 4. The history of the variation has been determined as follows: The darkest forms, or richteri s. str., were the ones originally dominant from the time of the ant''s introduction until at least 1929 and probably sometime after 1932. The origin of the new form is not known, although it is believed that it originated either through mutation within the population or through a second introduction. IN 1949 it was by far the dominant form. It had apparently replaced the typical richteri partly by rapid expansion and subsequent genetic dilution and partly through natural selection by direct competition. Its predominance in the main population and in at least two smaller isolated populations has evidently been responsible for a much greater success of the species. In the main population in 1949 the typical richteri was mostly limited in distribution to portions of the periphery of the range, forming with the new form roughly the concentric pattern of Matthew''s modified Age-and-Area hypothesis. 5. The new form has been interpreted as functioning, regardless of its origin, as a favorable mutation introduced into the population. Its rise to dominance has constituted an extremely rapid, nearly vertical evolutionary change.