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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by the biologist E. O. Wilson, in which the author discusses methods that have been used to unite the sciences and might in the future unite them with the humanities. [1] Wilson uses the term consilience to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor.
[7] [8] Wilson's interpretation of the theory of evolution resulted in a widely reported dispute with Richard Dawkins about multilevel selection theory. [9] Examinations of his letters after his death revealed that he had supported the psychologist J. Philippe Rushton , whose work on race and intelligence is widely regarded by the scientific ...
Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the author and biologist E. O. Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the cultural gap ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -E.O. Wilson, an American naturalist dubbed the modern day Darwin whose interest in ants led him to conclusions about human nature being directed by genetics rather than ...
Revered and controversial, Wilson was a scientific icon with a long list of works that documented his findings related to entomology and evolution. Remembering E.O. Wilson, pioneer of evolutionary ...
Pages in category "Works by E. O. Wilson" ... The Theory of Island Biogeography This page was last edited on 27 January 2013, at 21:51 (UTC). ...
A theory of everything (TOE), final theory, ultimate theory, unified field theory, or master theory is a hypothetical singular, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all aspects of the universe. [1]: 6 Finding a theory of everything is one of the major unsolved problems in physics. [2 ...
There is a theory that evolution has a direction and is progressive, orthogenesis. [8] As well as a general popular belief that this is what evolution entails, it has been supported by some biologists, such as the ant expert E. O. Wilson, although it is non-Darwinian. [9]