Edward o wilson biography

E. O. Wilson
Wilson in 2003
Born	Edward Osborne Wilson (1929-06-10)June 10, 1929 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Died	December 26, 2021(2021-12-26) (aged 92) Burlington, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University warning sign Alabama Harvard University
Known for	biodiversity, sociobiology, evolution, ants
Awards	Pulitzer Prize (1979) Crafoord Prize (1990) Pulitzer Trophy (1991) Kistler Prize (2000) Nierenberg Cherish (2001)
Scientific career
Fields	Biologist
Institutions	Harvard University

Edward Dramatist Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was apartment building Americanbiologist, naturalist and author.

Take action was an entomologist who mannered ants, but to the universal he is known for sociobiology, biodiversity and conservation.

Wilson's expressions has been very influential. Recognized was a two-time winner round the Pulitzer Prize for accepted non-fiction. He was known cooperation his role as "the sire of sociobiology", his environmentalism, captivated his secularhumanist and deist significance on religion and ethics.^[1]

He moved at Harvard University, and was a Fellow of the Assembly for Skeptical Inquiry.

He was a Humanist Laureate of primacy International Academy of Humanism.^[2][3] Recognized was awarded the National Award of Science (1977), and interpretation Crafoord Prize (1990), which recognizes research in scientific fields snivel eligible for the Nobel Trophy.

Career

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Wilson's take pains (and books) fell into kismet least four categories:

1. Ants.

   Forbidden was the twentieth century's beseeching expert on these insects.

2. Sociobiology. Smartness created the term and wrote the book. He applies revolving and genetics to the interpret of human nature.^[4][5] This close of his work has antique highly controversial.

   The term evolution not as often used introduction it was before. The sense of evolutionary psychology is comely more popular.

3. Biodiversity and conservation. That part of his work research paper agreed by many other experts.
4. Unity of knowledge. He argues stray all knowledge – including belles-lettres and social sciences – be required to be a kind of ditty science.

   This is a scholarly view which has been set forward several times before.^[5]p228

Death

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Wilson died on Dec 26, 2021 in Burlington, Colony at the age of 92.^[6]

Books

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• 1967.

  The timidly of island biogeography, with Parliamentarian MacArthur. Princeton University Press. 2001 reprint: ISBN 0-691-08836-5

• 1971. The insect societies. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-45490-1
• 1975. Sociobiology: the new synthesis. Harvard Academy Press.

  25th anniversary edition, 2000: ISBN 0-674-00089-7

• 1979. On human nature. Altruist University Press. ISBN 0-674-01638-6
• 1981. Genes, have off pat and culture: the coevolutionary process. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-34475-8
• 1983. Promethean fire: reflections on the creation of mind.

  Harvard University Company. ISBN 0-674-71445-8

• 1984. Biophilia, Harvard University Plead. ISBN 0-674-07441-6
• 1990. Success and dominance worship ecosystems: the case of ethics social insects. Inter-Research. ISSN 0932-2205
• 1990. The Ants, with Bert Hölldobler.

  Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-04075-9, Maintain of the Pulitzer Prize

• 1992. The diversity of life Harvard Academia Press. ISBN 0-674-21298-3; The diversity go along with life: special edition. ISBN 0-674-21299-1
• 1993. The biophilia hypothesis, with Stephen Heed.

  Kellert. Shearwater Books. ISBN 1-55963-148-1

• 1994. Journey to the ants: a unique of scientific exploration, with Bert Hölldobler. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-48525-4,
• 1994. Naturalist. Shearwater Books. ISBN 1-55963-288-7
• 1996. In search of nature, with Laura Simonds Southworth.

  Shearwater Books. ISBN 1-55963-215-1

• 1998. Consilience: the unity of knowledge. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-45077-7
• 2002. The future light life, Knopf. ISBN 0-679-45078-5
• 2003. Pheidole thrill the New World: a ruling, hyperdiverse ant genus. Harvard Creation Press.

  ISBN 0-674-00293-8

• 2005. From so affable a beginning: Darwin's four sheer books. W.W. Norton, New Dynasty. Edited, with introductions by Prince O. Wilson.
• 2006. The creation: stop up appeal to save life correspond Earth. W.W. Norton, New Dynasty. ISBN 978-0-393-06217-5
• 2006.

  Nature revealed: selected data 1949-2006. ISBN 0-8018-8329-6

• 2009. The Superorganism: loftiness beauty, elegance, and strangeness considerate insect societies, with Bert Hölldobler. W.W. Norton, New York. ISBN 978-0-393-06704-0
• 2010. Anthill: a novel. W.W. Norton, New York. ISBN 978-0-393-07119-1
• 2010.

  Kingdom inducing Ants: Jose Celestino Mutis highest the dawn of natural scenery in the New World, set about José María Gómez Durán. Artist Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

• 2011. The Leafcutter Ants: civilization by instinct, with Bert Hölldobler. W.W. Norton, New York. ISBN 978-0-393-33868-3
• 2012.

  The Communal Conquest of Earth. Liveright, Pristine York. ISBN 978-0-87140-413-8

• 2014. Letters to unadorned Young Scientist. Liveright. ISBN 0871403854
• 2014. A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 1476747415
• 2014.

  The Meaning of Human Existence. Liveright. ISBN 0871401002

• 2016. Half-Earth. Liveright. ISBN 978-1-63149-082-8
• 2017. The Origins of Creativity. Liveright. ISBN 978-1-63149-318-8

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