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""A wise personal memoir.... A mixture of loneliness, amusement, curiosity and intellectual rigor makes the voice of this thoughtful man unforgettable.""-- ""The New York Times Book Review"" ""In this exquisitely written memoir, the famed Harvard scientist looks back at his childhood in the South as well as his career as a groundbreaking thinker in the field of evolutionary biology. Truly, here is the irrefutable proof that scientists have souls.""-- ""The USA Today"" ""This memoir, a fitting capstone to an extraordinary career, should inspire yet another generation of scientists to explore the natural world.""-- ""Library Journal"" ""Vividly, often beautifully written. Wilson emerges not only as a gifted scientist, but also as a likable, passionate, eloquent person.""--Jared Diamond ""The New York Review of Books"" ""What distinguishes Wilson's story is its handsome prose, honed by years of practice into a concise and sly discourse. Among literary scientists, no one since Rachel Carson has more effectively joined humble detail to a grand vision of life processes and structures.""-- ""The Washington Post Book World"" ""Wilson is the grand master of lyrically analytic nature writing.""-- ""Science"" ""[Naturalist] is one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written, by one of the finest scientists writing today.""-- ""Los Angeles Times"" ""Naturalist reads like a classic hero's tale.""-- ""Bloomsbury Review"" ""The book to read, to get the full story on Mr. Wilson's eventful life, is his memoir Naturalist, published in 1994.""-- ""The New York Times""

A wise personal memoir.... A mixture of loneliness, amusement, curiosity and intellectual rigor makes the voice of this thoughtful man unforgettable. -- The New York Times Book Review In this exquisitely written memoir, the famed Harvard scientist looks back at his childhood in the South as well as his career as a groundbreaking thinker in the field of evolutionary biology. Truly, here is the irrefutable proof that scientists have souls. -- The USA Today This memoir, a fitting capstone to an extraordinary career, should inspire yet another generation of scientists to explore the natural world. -- Library Journal Vividly, often beautifully written. Wilson emerges not only as a gifted scientist, but also as a likable, passionate, eloquent person. --Jared Diamond The New York Review of Books What distinguishes Wilson's story is its handsome prose, honed by years of practice into a concise and sly discourse. Among literary scientists, no one since Rachel Carson has more effectively joined humble detail to a grand vision of life processes and structures. -- The Washington Post Book World Wilson is the grand master of lyrically analytic nature writing. -- Science [Naturalist] is one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written, by one of the finest scientists writing today. -- Los Angeles Times Naturalist reads like a classic hero's tale. -- Bloomsbury Review The book to read, to get the full story on Mr. Wilson's eventful life, is his memoir Naturalist, published in 1994. -- The New York Times

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Regarded as one of the world's preeminent biologists and naturalists, Edward O. Wilson grew up in south Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, where he spent his boyhood exploring the region's forests and swamps, collecting snakes, butterflies, and ants--the latter to become his lifelong specialty. Dr. Wilson is the author of more than twenty books, including The Ants and On Human Nature, both of which were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is currently Faculty Emeritus in the Museum of Comparative Zoology and Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus at Harvard University.

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