![]() ![]() ![]() Snow famously called the ‘two cultures’ of science and the humanities. His latest essay is an extension of his recent The Social Conquest of Earth (2012), but echoes Consilience in its call for a reconciliation between what C. His many books include On Human Nature (1978) – which earned him the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes – and Consilience (1998), which argued for the unity of all knowledge. No one could accuse Wilson, an entomologist who specialises in ants, of thinking small. Wilson, a slim volume with the modest title The Meaning of Human Existence (2015). I inevitably thought of Adams’ joke while reading the new book by the distinguished evolutionary biologist Edward O. ![]() This turns out to be: ‘What do you get if you multiply six by nine?’ To understand the answer, you need to know the question. ![]() It is less often recalled that this is not actually the punchline. Antonio Díaz, Luis Angel Francisco Arzola, 2014, photograph, 38 x 25.5 cm, courtesy of the artist, part of the exhibition 43 Reflections for Ayotzinapa.Įverybody remembers Douglas Adams’ joke at the expense of those who would fret about the meaning of life when, in his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series of novels, he has a supercomputer named Deep Thought ponder the ultimate question of Life, the Universe and Everything and declare that the answer is 42. ![]()
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