On Human Nature

On Human Nature
Author(s)	E. O. Wilson
Language	English
Subject(s)	Biology, Evolutionary psychology
Genre(s)	Science
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Publication date	October 18, 2004 25th Anniversary Edition
ISBN	0-674-01638-6
OCLC Number	55534964
Dewey Decimal	304.5 22
LC Classification	GN365.9 .W54 2004

On Human Nature is a 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning book^[1] by the 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.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction" (web). pulitzer.org. http://www.pulitzer.org/. Retrieved March 13, 2008. 

• Harvard University Press
• http://mcgoodwin.net/pages/otherbooks/eow_humannature.html