The Social Conquest Of Earth Summary

In the book review of, The Social Conquest of Earth by E.O. Wilson, Seth Mnookin critiques E.O. Wilson’s book on, how the Earth came to be inhabited by bees, termites, wasps, ants, and humans. In relation to persona Mnookin is a critic of The Social Conquest of Earth. Mnookin’s intended audience is people who were fans of Wilson’s earlier works. Wilson’s books The Insect Societies, Sociobiology and On Human Nature brought him fame and a Pulitzer Prize. The overall tone of this review is to rebuke and reinforce that The Social Conquest of Earth is a book of nonsense, and is scientifically unsophisticated. Mnookin points out, that Wilson disregards a decade’s worth of scientific research. The review is very detailed and reveals lots of discrepancies.
Several sources are from Wilson’s previous books and articles he has written. Mnookin’s review is very explicit in his opinion of, The Social Conquest of Earth. Mnookin feels that this book is one of Wilson’s biggest tragedies, there are lots of holes in his work and he feels he let his foolish pride cloud his discipline of science. Mnookin’s article was published in the Boston Globe two years after The Social Conquest of Earth was published. The review was to rebuke and rebut the sloppy details and hypothesis on biology and behavior that Edward O. Wilson presented.