Now 85, the father of sociobiology, the world’s expert on ants, Edward O. Wilson has been hailed by some as the new Charles Darwin. In spite of the grand title, his latest offering is a meander through Wilson’s well-furnished mind rather than a systematic attempt to unravel all the mysteries of life. And at the end of an entertaining tour, there is no great revelation, just a hopeful, pleasant view of the future.What Wilson craves now is a new Enlightenment. He believes that we have a deep enough understanding of evolution and of our own biology and the physical universe we occupy to settle many of the questions that we once turned to religion to answer. And if we merged science with the humanities, those great, creative expressions of our condition, we would create a synthesi