Perhaps more than any other scientist of our century, Edward O. Wilson
has scrutinized animals in their natural settings, tweezing out the
dynamics of their social organization, their relationship with their
environments, and their behavior, not only for what it tells us about
the animals themselves, but for what it can tell us about human nature
and our own behavior. He has brought the fascinating and sometimes
surprising results of these studies to general readers through a
remarkable collection of books, including The Diversity of Life, The
Ants, On Human Nature, and Sociobiology.