Literature/1998/Wilson

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 * Literally a 'jumping together' of knowledge by the linking of facts and fact-based theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation. (page 7)

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 * Sociobiology
 * Consilience
 * w: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
 * Wilson discusses methods that have been used to unite the sciences and might in the future unite them with the humanities. Wilson prefers and uses the term consilience to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor.