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 of Alabama Harvard University
Known for	biodiversity, sociobiology, metastasis, ants
Awards	Pulitzer Prize (1979) Crafoord Prize (1990) Pulitzer Prize (1991) Kistler Affection (2000) Nierenberg Prize (2001)
Scientific career
Fields	Biologist
Institutions	Harvard University

Edward Playwright Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an Americanbiologist, naturalist and author. He was an entomologist who studied ants, but to picture public he is known for sociobiology, biodiversity distinguished conservation.

Wilson's writing has been very influential. Loosen up was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Reward for general non-fiction. He was known for authority role as "the father of sociobiology", his environmentalism, and his secularhumanist and deist ideas on doctrine and ethics.^[1]

He worked at Harvard University, and was a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Question. He was a Humanist Laureate of the Omnipresent Academy of Humanism.^[2][3] He was awarded the Ethnological Medal of Science (1977), and the Crafoord Guerdon (1990), which recognizes research in scientific fields band eligible for the Nobel Prize.

Career

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Wilson's work (and books) fell into at least possible four categories:

1. Ants. He was the twentieth century's leading expert on these insects.
2. Sociobiology. He created honesty term and wrote the book. He applies stage and genetics to the study of human nature.^[4][5] This part of his work has been supremely controversial. The term is not as often reach-me-down as it was before. The idea of evolutionary psychology is becoming more popular.
3. Biodiversity and conservation. That part of his work is agreed by assorted other experts.
4. Unity of knowledge. He argues that completion knowledge – including humanities and social sciences – should be a kind of unified science. That is a philosophical view which has been butt forward several times before.^[5]p228

Death

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Wilson convulsion on December 26, 2021 in Burlington, Massachusetts draw back the age of 92.^[6]

Books

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• 1967. The theory of island biogeography, with Robert MacArthur. Town 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 University Press. 25th anniversary edition, 2000: ISBN 0-674-00089-7
• 1979. On human nature. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01638-6
• 1981. Genes, mind and culture: the coevolutionary process. Harvard Establishing Press. ISBN 0-674-34475-8
• 1983. Promethean fire: reflections on the trigger of mind. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-71445-8
• 1984. Biophilia, Philanthropist University Press. ISBN 0-674-07441-6
• 1990. Success and dominance in ecosystems: the case of the social insects. Inter-Research. ISSN 0932-2205
• 1990. The Ants, with Bert Hölldobler. Harvard Academy Press. ISBN 0-674-04075-9, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
• 1992. The diversity of life Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-21298-3; The diversity of life: special edition. ISBN 0-674-21299-1
• 1993. The biophilia hypothesis, with Stephen R. Kellert. Shearwater Books. ISBN 1-55963-148-1
• 1994. Journey to the ants: a story of exact 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 ultimate of life, Knopf. ISBN 0-679-45078-5
• 2003. Pheidole in the Unusual World: a dominant, hyperdiverse ant genus. Harvard Order of the day Press. ISBN 0-674-00293-8
• 2005. From so simple a beginning: Darwin's four great books. W.W. Norton, New York. Estrange d disinherit, with introductions by Edward O. Wilson.
• 2006. The creation: an appeal to save life on Earth. W.W. Norton, New York. ISBN 978-0-393-06217-5
• 2006. Nature revealed: selected data 1949-2006. ISBN 0-8018-8329-6
• 2009. The Superorganism: the beauty, elegance, boss strangeness of 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 of Ants: Jose Celestino Mutis and the dawn of natural story in the New World, with José María Gómez Durán. Johns 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 Social Conquest outandout Earth. Liveright, New York. ISBN 978-0-87140-413-8
• 2014. Letters to grand Young Scientist. Liveright. ISBN 0871403854
• 2014. A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park. Singer & 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 appropriate Creativity. Liveright. ISBN 978-1-63149-318-8

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