E O Wilson

Edward Osborne (E.O.) Wilson is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist, and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert. Wilson has been called "the father of sociobiology and biodiversity," the fields of his environmental advocacy. He is Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, a lecturer at...See more

Edward Osborne (E.O.) Wilson is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist, and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert. Wilson has been called "the father of sociobiology and biodiversity," the fields of his environmental advocacy. He is Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, a lecturer at Duke University, and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction ( On Human Nature in 1979 and The Ants in 1991) and author of New York Times bestsellers The Social Conquest of Earth , Letters to a Young Scientist , and The Meaning of Human Existence . He is the author of twenty-five books and four hundred scientific articles. Wilson is still active in field research, writing, and conservation work. In his later years, he has focused on the exceptional biodiversity of his native Alabama. He lives with his wife, Irene, in Lexington, Massachusetts. See less