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The Meaning of Human Existence

by Edward O. Wilson

Hardcover, 207 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, List Price: $23.95 |

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Author: Edward O. Wilson

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A twenty-first-century philosophical argument against mechanistic views of human life outlines expansive and advanced theories on human behavior to consider how humans are supremely different from all other species.

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