Volume 42, Number 1 · January 12, 1995
Portrait of the Biologist as a Young Man
By Jared Diamond
Naturalist
by Edward O. Wilson
Island Press/Shearwater Books, 380 pp., $24.95
Nothing is so fascinating or complicated as the trajectory of a human life. We emerge partly programmed at birth, and we change with our experiences thereafter. Some of us finally blow apart in adulthood like long-fuse time bombs, while others grow to shine brightly like comets. Most of us have less spectacular careers, which are still hard to explain in hindsight, even to ourselves, and impossible to foresee in detail.
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