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  First Edition of Principles of Physical Cosmology; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist P.J.E. Peebles to American Naturalist Edward O. Wilson

  PEEBLES, P.J.E. [Edward O. Wilson].

  Principles of Physical Cosmology.

  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993.

  First edition of this comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the science of the universe by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated with graphs, equations, and diagrams. Association copy, inscribed by the author to biologist Edward O. Wilson, "With best wishes to you, Edward Jim Peebles 14 May 2021." The recipient, Edward Osborne Wilson, was an American biologist, naturalist, and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author widely regarded as one of the greatest natural scientists of the twentieth century, whose career at Harvard University across nearly five decades produced foundational contributions to entomology, evolutionary biology, island biogeography, and the theory of sociobiology that permanently transformed our understanding of the biological basis of social behavior in animals and humans alike. His seminal works include Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975), On Human Nature (1978), for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Ants (1990, co-authored with Bert Hölldobler), which also won a Pulitzer Prize, and Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), in which he argued with characteristic audacity that all branches of human knowledge, from the natural sciences to the humanities, are fundamentally unified by a s...

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