![]() Structurally, there are evident seams where many of the essays have been stitched into a book some are rather badly frayed in places and the stuffing is coming out in others. There is also a little too much score-settling (with that mean old Richard Dawkins, for example), which is out of place. The lack of references or footnotes is similarly rather too casual. ![]() Written in Wilson’s usual engaging and highly readable style, at times the book is arguably too relaxed, and the folksy charm detracts from his argument. He is in essence trying to present a holistic picture of the development of our species and the possibilities our future might hold (although the latter is disguised as discussion of what extraterrestrials might be like). ![]() Those familiar with his work will notice echoes from Sociobiology through to The Social Conquest of Earth. It takes the form of a series of broadly interconnected essays that are a jaunty distillation of many of Wilson’s well-known books. ![]() Wilson offers the reader a little book that claims to provide an answer. T he meaning of human existence can’t be thought of as a little question, but the eminent biologist Edward O. ![]()
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