Edward O. Wilson

The Origins of Creativity: A book review by Bob Morris

May 23, 2022

The Origins of Creativity Edward O. Wilson Liveright Publishing Corporation (October 2017) Will this be the third Enlightenment? In recent years, Anthony Gottlieb wrote two of the books that were for me among those most intellectually stimulating: The Dream of…

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Business Lessons to Be Learned from Leafcutter Ants

September 8, 2014

Evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson has spent much of his career studying leafcutter ants. In a book co-authored with Bert Hölldobler,  The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct, he argues that their success is due to division of labor. There are…

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The Watchman’s Rattle: A book review by Bob Morris

March 9, 2012

The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction Rebecca D. Costa Vanguard Press (2010) How and why we must accept “the title of realists-in-search of- a-solution, not doomsayers….” Frankly, I did not know quite what to expect as I…

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