Edward O. Wilson





Edward O. Wilson

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June 10, 1929 in Birmingham, Alabama, The United States

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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.


Average rating: 3.90 · 14,233 ratings · 1,408 reviews · 94 distinct works
Consilience: The Unity of K...
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,232 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions
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The Diversity of Life
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 893 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions
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The Future Of Life
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 707 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions
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Anthill
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On Human Nature: Revised Ed...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 471 ratings — published 1979 — 7 editions
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The Creation: An Appeal to ...
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions
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Naturalist
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 300 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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Sociobiology: The New Synth...
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1975 — 7 editions
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Biophilia
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions
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The Social Conquest of Earth
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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“People would rather believe than know.”
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

“One planet, one experiment.”
Edward O. Wilson

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