The influential and sometimes controversial Harvard professor first made his name studying ants. He later broadened his scope to the intersection between human behavior and genetics.
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner wrote more than 30 books and recently took to defending biodiversity against human activity. He will be remembered for his pioneering work studying ants.
BOSTON (Associated Press) Edward O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who advanced the provocative theory that human behavior such as war and altru.
Edward O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who argued for a new vision of human nature in “Sociobiology” and warned against the decline of ecosystems, has died. He was 92.