![]() ![]() ![]() While science and the humanities are fundamentally different, they are complementary. Science takes a larger view: the general principles of the human condition and why the species exists and where it fits in the universe. The humanities, writes Wilson, describe the human condition and address in detail all the ways that human beings relate to one another and to the environment. Our most vital possession is not science but the humanities. The meaning of human existence, writes the author, lies in “the epic of the species, begun in biological evolution and prehistory, passed into recorded history, and urgently now, day by day, faster and faster into the indefinite future.” Social intelligence, enhanced by natural selection for social action, made us what we are today. ![]() No destiny or purpose is assigned to us, and no afterlife awaits us. ![]() An exploration of what it means to be human by the noted sociobiologist and naturalist, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize.Īccording to Wilson ( A Window on Eternity: Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, 2014, etc.), our species was created not by a supernatural intelligence but by chance and necessity out of millions of species in Earth’s biosphere. ![]()
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