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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.
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