National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species
like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in
the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of
all, "Why?"
In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer
Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other
existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different
from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the
rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson
takes his readers on a journey, in the