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    has quotations related to E. O. Wilson. Wikimedia Commons has media related to E. O. Wilson. Curriculum vitae E.O. Wilson Foundation Dawkins, Richard...
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  • The PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award is awarded by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) for writing that exemplifies literary...
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  • Jason O. Wilson is an American author and martial arts coach. Wilson is featured in the documentary film The Cave of Adullam, produced by Laurence Fishburne...
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  • the concept did not gain major recognition until the publication of E. O. Wilson's book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis in 1975. The new field quickly...
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    Damaraland mole-rat. Some shrimps, such as Synalpheus regalis, are eusocial. E. O. Wilson and others have claimed that humans have evolved a weak form of eusociality...
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    of several books, including The Ants, for which he and his co-author, E. O. Wilson, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction writing in 1991. Hölldobler...
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  • of Wilson's School, originally in Camberwell, London E. O. Wilson (Edward Osborne Wilson, 1929–2021), American entomologist and biologist Tug Wilson (British...
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    Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol...
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  • Half-Earth (category Works by E. O. Wilson)
    Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life is a 2016 book by the biologist E. O. Wilson, the last in a trilogy beginning with The Social Conquest of Earth (2012)...
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    of the Jurassic period, before divergence in the Cretaceous. In 1966, E. O. Wilson and his colleagues identified the fossil remains of an ant (Sphecomyrma)...
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    terminology of r/K-selection was coined by the ecologists Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson in 1967 based on their work on island biogeography; although the concept...
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  • Consilience (book) (category Works by E. O. Wilson)
    Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by the biologist E. O. Wilson, in which the author discusses methods that have been used to unite the...
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    doi:10.1073/pnas.1922686117. PMC 7306750. PMID 32482862. Wilson, E.O. (30 April 2012). ""E. O. Wilson wants to know why you're not protesting in the streets""...
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  • The Social Conquest of Earth (category Works by E. O. Wilson)
    The Social Conquest of Earth is a 2012 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson. Wilson adapted the title of Paul Gauguin's famous mural as a theme -- "What...
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  • The Theory of Island Biogeography (category Works by E. O. Wilson)
    1967 book by the ecologist Robert MacArthur and the biologist Edward O. Wilson. It is widely regarded as a seminal work in island biogeography and ecology...
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  • field was started in the 1960s by the ecologists Robert H. MacArthur and E. O. Wilson, who coined the term island biogeography in their inaugural contribution...
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  • Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (category Works by E. O. Wilson)
    Synthesis (1975; 25th anniversary edition 2000) is a book by the biologist E. O. Wilson. It helped start the sociobiology debate, one of the great scientific...
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  • Letters to a Young Scientist (category Works by E. O. Wilson)
    book by E. O. Wilson. Included is the observation that one doesn't need to be brilliant at math to become a great scientist. "E.O. Wilson's Advice for...
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    groups, like individuals, could compete. In 2010 three authors including E. O. Wilson, known for his work on social insects especially ants, again revisited...
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  • The Ants (category Works by E. O. Wilson)
    the German entomologist Bert Hölldobler and the American entomologist E. O. Wilson, first published in 1990. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction...
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  • biologist E. O. Wilson in 1961 after he surveyed the distributions, habitats, behavior and morphology of ant species in the Melanesian archipelago. Wilson categorized...
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  • Journey to the Ants (category Works by E. O. Wilson)
    by the evolutionary biologist Bert Hölldobler and the biologist Edward O. Wilson. The book was written as a popularized account for the layman of the science...
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  • O. Wilson, MD (October 5, 1904 – November 16, 1967) was an American physician born to Protestant missionaries Wilbur F. Wilson and Mary Rowley Wilson...
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    millimetres (0.20 in) in length. The order is not yet widely studied. E. O. Wilson has identified schizomids as among the "groups of organisms that desperately...
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    semisocial. In his use of these words, he did not generalize beyond insects. E. O. Wilson later refined Batra's definition of quasisocial. Subsociality is common...
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  • especially through the mechanisms of epigenetics. The American biologist E. O. Wilson, who founded the discipline of sociobiology based on observations of...
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  • Kuhn, Jf '51; linguist and activist Noam Chomsky, Jf '55; biologist E. O. Wilson, Jf '56; cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky, Jf '57; former dean of the...
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  • Carter was inspired to write "The Jersey Devil" after reading an essay by E. O. Wilson regarding ants; Carter, in turn, wrote a story that posed whether mankind...
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  • On Human Nature (category Works by E. O. Wilson)
    book by the biologist E. O. Wilson, in which the author attempts to explain human nature and society through sociobiology. Wilson argues that evolution...
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    National Book Award finalists; and The Information was awarded the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012 and the Royal Society Winton Prize...
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