On Human Nature

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On Human Nature is a 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson.[1]

On Human Nature
AuthorE. O. Wilson
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSociobiology, evolutionary psychology
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN0-674-01638-6
OCLC55534964

The book tries to explain how aspects of humans and society can be explained from the point of view of evolution. He explains how evolution has left its traces on the characteristics which are the specialty of the human species. Examples are generosity, self-sacrifice, worship and the use of sex for pleasure.

The book was an attempt to complete the Darwinian revolution by bringing biological thought into social sciences and humanities.[2]

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