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Uniting  Biology  and
the  Social  Sciences

A  Rhetorical  Comparison  of
E.  O.  Wilson’s  Consilience  and
Theodosius  Dobzhansky’s  Mankind  Evolving

Leah Ceccarelli

Introduction

A First Look at the Rhetorical Styles of the Two Books

Metaphor Choice and Sentence Structure

The Rhetorical Use of Binaries

Other Rhetorical Differences Between the Two Texts

Conclusions

Notes