Scientist: Richard Rhodes

A mediocre biography about a remarkable man and scientist. E. O. Wilson achieved an astonishing amount in his long life and deserved a better biography than this one.

The "modern synthesis" uniting Menedelian genetics and Darwinian natural selection.

Is behavior driven by nature (genetics) or by nurture (culure)? Founded a new field he named sociobiology. Controversy arose especially from anthropologists.