Meet Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D.

Edward O. Wilson is an entomologist and biologist known for his pioneering work on evolution and sociobiology, and is often referred to as the father of sociobiology and modern biodiversity studies. He has authored many books, including Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975), On Human Nature (winner of a 1979 Pulitzer Prize), The Ants (winner of a 1991 Pulitzer Prize), Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998) and Kingdom of Ants: José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World (2010). He has received over one hundred awards, many of them international, in science and letters. He is the Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.

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Kingdom of Ants
José Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World

Edward O. Wilson and José M. Gómez Durán

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A Contract with the Earth

Newt Gingrich and Terry L. Maple
foreword by E. O. Wilson

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Cockroaches
Ecology, Behavior, and Natural History

William J. Bell, Louis M. Roth, and Christine A. Nalepa
foreword by Edward O. Wilson

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Nature Revealed
Selected Writings, 1949-2006

Edward O. Wilson

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