Wilson, Edward O

Raphael Semmes Cody, a fifteen-year-old boy who is fascinated with the outdoors, studies the creation and destruction of four ant colonies in Alabama, and when he grows up, he decides to go to Harvard Law School in order to fight for his environmental beliefs, and the fate of the Nokobee wildland, in the courtroom.

An acclaimed biologist discusses how morality, religion, and the creative arts are biological in nature and defends his theory that the origin of the human condition is due to group, not family, selection.

The author, Harvard professor E.O. Wilson, proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity.

Argues that many of the world's plants and animals are in danger of becoming extinct because of humans' misuse of the earth's resources and describes the species which are most at risk.