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Edward O. Wilson
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born
June 10, 1929
gender
male
place of birth
Birmingham, Alabama, The United States
genre
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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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson avg rating 4.01 — 432 ratings — published 1998 9 editions |
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The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson avg rating 4.11 — 276 ratings — published 2002 11 editions |
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The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson avg rating 4.10 — 201 ratings — published 1992 9 editions |
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The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Edward O. Wilson avg rating 3.78 — 173 ratings — published 2006 3 editions |
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On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson avg rating 3.93 — 127 ratings — published 1978 7 editions |
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Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson avg rating 4.01 — 88 ratings — published 1994 6 editions |
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Biophilia by Edward O. Wilson avg rating 4.06 — 68 ratings — published 1984 3 editions |
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Edward O. Wilson avg rating 3.98 — 51 ratings — published 1975 5 editions |
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In Search of Nature by Edward O. Wilson avg rating 3.79 — 43 ratings — published 1996 3 editions |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001 by Edward O. Wilson , Burkhard Bilger avg rating 3.96 — 25 ratings — published 2001 2 editions |
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"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)
