Edward O. Wilson
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born
June 10, 1929
gender
male
place of birth
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Science
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Edward Osborne Wilson is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, a branch of entomology. A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his secular-humanist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters. He is Pellegrino University Research Professor in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.
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quotes by Edward O. Wilson
"Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view."
— Edward O. Wilson
— Edward O. Wilson
"Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture."
— Edward O. Wilson (The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth)
— Edward O. Wilson (The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth)














