Consilience

E.O. Wilson's 1998 argument for the unity of all knowledge — that the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities can and should be unified under a single explanatory framework rooted in the natural sciences and evolutionary biology.

Argues that consilience — the linking of facts and fact-based theory across disciplines to create a common groundwork of explanation — is the supreme goal of the Enlightenment and of intellectual life; proposes evolutionary biology as the bridging discipline capable of unifying human knowledge.