Edward O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who advanced the provocative theory that human behavior such as war and altruism has a genetic basis, has died. He was 92.
Scientist stirred controversy with 1975 book, 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis,' that linked human behavior and genetics; critics equated theories with sexism, racism and Nazism
Edward O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who advanced the provocative theory that human behaviour such as war and altruism has a genetic basis and warned against the decline of ecosystems, has died. He was 92.
The Harvard biologist, Edward O Wilson, who advanced the provocative theory that human behavior such as war and altruism has a genetic basis and warned against the decline of ecosystems died at the age of 92.