Consilience (book)
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| Author | E. O. Wilson |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Consilience |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 332 pp. |
| ISBN | 9780679450771 |
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by the biologist E. O. Wilson, in which the author discusses methods that have been used to unite the sciences and might in the future unite them with the humanities.
Wilson uses the term consilience to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor.