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briface's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this graphic adaptation! I most likely would never have picked up Wilson's traditional memoir; I love how graphic novels can make a topic more accessible. If this book had existed when I was in middle school or high school I think it would have been a great motivator.
lucyat's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this book. I'm becoming a huge fan of non-fiction graphic novels as a way of learning history in particular but also Science and absorbing lots of information in a quick and accessible form. I think Jim Ottaviani wrote the excellent one on Richard Feynman. The illustrations are attractive and the colours gorgeous. It was a nice touch to show the older E. O. Wilson standing next to his younger self. The book ranged widely over E. O. Wilson's life and included complex ideas in biology, sociobiology and ecology which I had to work at understanding due to lack of knowledge of Biology. Highly recommended!
lenni's review against another edition
3.0
I don't think that adapting Wilson's autobiography into a graphic novel makes it any more readable; he's never really catered to a wide generalist audience.
Thoughts:
I wasn't aware that Wilson originated the species area curve.
I found it strange that he writes about a formative experience as a Boy Scout working with Black youth forming their own troop but shrugs it off as him not having a social conscious. This is true of many of us as children but especially striking here because Wilson has been accused of racism in his field of sociobiological thought.
How are there so many different ant genera?
The young Wilson isn't really drawn that young.
Does this mean I don't have to read the non- graphic version of this book?
Thoughts:
I wasn't aware that Wilson originated the species area curve.
I found it strange that he writes about a formative experience as a Boy Scout working with Black youth forming their own troop but shrugs it off as him not having a social conscious. This is true of many of us as children but especially striking here because Wilson has been accused of racism in his field of sociobiological thought.
How are there so many different ant genera?
The young Wilson isn't really drawn that young.
Does this mean I don't have to read the non- graphic version of this book?
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