Bryan Walsh in 2011 named "On Human Nature" as one of the "100 best and most influential" books written in English since 1923 in "Time". He considered Wilson's "real achievement" to be to "show how a sociobiological view of humanity could still have grandeur." The computer scientist Paul Brown in 2018 stated in "Skeptical Inquirer" that "On Human Nature" is "still brimful with ideas and insights about who we are, how we got here, and how to get wherever we want to go."