In the 1990s, he attempted to unite science with the humanities through the concept of consilience.
For this endeavour, he was called out in many quarters. He created a new field called sociobiology, sometimes known as evolutionary psychology.
Behaviour, he argued, is genetically determined. In the 1970s, Wilson took what he had learned from insect behaviour, and applied it to vertebrate animals, including humans. In the 1950s, Wilson discovered how the social insects communicate with one another with (through pheromones or smell). All that it takes for success is an idea, the conviction to pursue the idea, and the daring to continue when the world misinterprets and turns against you. Reading it gives me the sense that everything is possible, not just in science, but in my own field of dramatic literary theory. 1978, 2004 (with new preface), Harvard University Press, 282 pages
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