Compellingly  interesting and enormously important...The most stimulating, the most  provocative, and the most illuminating work of nonfiction I have read in  some time.

--William McPherson (Washington Post Book World 20050301)

A  work of high intellectual daring...Here is an accomplished biologist  explaining, in notably clear and unprevaricating language, what he  thinks his subject now has to offer to the understanding of man and  society...The implications of Wilson's thesis are rather considerable,  for if true, no system of political, social, religious or ethical  thought can afford to ignore it.

--Nicholas Wade (New Republic 20071124)

Twenty-five years after its first publication, Harvard University Press has re-released Edward O. Wilson's classic work, On Human Nature.  A double Pulitzer Prize winner, Wilson is a writer of effortless grace  and stylish succinctness and this is one of his finest, most important  books...[A] highly influential, elegantly written book.

--Robin McKie (The Observer )

A seminal, groundbreaking, informative, thought-provoking, enduringly valuable, and highly recommended read. (Bookwatch )