Never before have the four great works of Charles Darwin - Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle (1845), The Origin of Species (1859), The Descent of Man (1871) and The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) - been collected under one cover.

Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the 21st century. E.O. Wilson describes exactly which treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever and what we can do right now to save them.

Demonstrates that the study of the superorganism has led to various developments in our understanding of how the transitions between such levels have occurred in evolution and how life has progressed from simple to complex forms.

This guide aims to help the reader understand what animals do and what their behaviour means. Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork and on the research of many other scientists, Richard Estes describes and explains the behaviour of four major groups of mammals.

Making up nearly 15 per cent of the entire terrestrial animal biomass, ants are impressive not only in quantitative terms, they also fascinate by their highly organized and complex social system. Ants are the premier soil turners, channelers of energy and dominatrices of the insect fauna.

Tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. This work describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity is beyond the scope of anything we have known before. It also addresses the explosion of the field of conservation biology and takes a look at the work still to be done.

Species of the genus Pheidole are the most abundant and diverse ants of the New World and range from the northern US to Argentina. In this text, Edward O. Wilson untangles its classification, time, characterising all 625 known species, and ordering them into 19 species groups.

Explores topics as diverse as slavery in ants, the genetic basis of societal structure, the discovery of the taxon cycle, the original formulation of the theory of island biology, a critique of subspecies as a unit of classification, and the conservation of life's diversity. This work presents each article in its original form.

Argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for consilience : the composition of the principles governing every branch of learning. The author shows how our rise in intellectual mastery is rooted in an ancient Greek concept at its zenith during the Enlightenment.

This work develops a general theory to explain the facts of island biogeography. The theory builds on the first principles of population ecology and genetics to explain how distance and area combine to regulate the balance between immigration and extinction in island populations.

Proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity. This book is written in the form of a letter to a Southern Baptist Minister with personal anecdotes from the author's life.

Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery - Richard Dawkins In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity today is beyond the scope of anything we have known before. In an extensive new for

When this work was first published it created a discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. In the introduction Edward Wilson shows how research in human genetics and neuroscience has strengthened the case for biological understanding of human nature.

Synthesises the scattered literature about social phenomena across the arthropod phylum: beetles and bugs, caterpillars and cockroaches, mantids and membracids, sawflies and spiders. This work takes a narrative approach that interweaves theory and data analysis with the behaviour and ecology of these remarkable groups.

Introduces gene-culture coevolution with a review of progress in this volume that presents human nature as being neither arbitrary nor predetermined, and seeks to identify mechanisms in the translation of genes to culture. It draws on fields such as population genetics to trace steps that lead from genes through human consciousness to culture.

United in their belief that the conservation of biological diversity is a primary concern of humankind, the editors of this book bring together internationally known, similarly- minded experts from the scientific, societal, and conservation policy areas who address policy responses to the problem of biodiversity loss.

Proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity. This book is written in the form of a letter to a Southern Baptist Minister with personal anecdotes from the author's life.

The definitive guide to a planet in critical transition, providing a blueprint for our survival. Explains how we can mend our ways and redress the situation.