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The creation : an appeal to save life on earth / Edward O. Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Edward O.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biology.
- Creation.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [2006]
- Summary:
- In his daring work, Wilson states that Nature is a universal value--one that serves without discrimination the interests of all humanity--and proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity.
- Contents:
- I The Creation
- 1 Letter to a Southern Baptist Pastor: Salutation 3
- 2 Ascending to Nature 9
- 3 What Is Nature? 15
- 4 Why Care? 26
- 5 Alien Invaders from Planet Earth 37
- 6 Two Magnificent Animals 55
- 7 Wild Nature and Human Nature 62
- II Decline and Redemption
- 8 The Pauperization of Earth 73
- 9 Denial and Its Risks 82
- 10 End Game 91
- III What Science Has Learned
- 11 Biology Is the Study of Nature 103
- 12 The Fundamental Laws of Biology 110
- 13 Exploration of a Little-Known Planet 116
- IV Teaching the Creation
- 14 How to Learn Biology and How to Teach It 127
- 15 How to Raise a Naturalist 139
- 16 Citizen Science 148
- V Reaching Across
- 17 An Alliance for Life 165.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173).
- ISBN:
- 0393062171
- OCLC:
- 69241402
- Publisher Number:
- 9780393062175
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