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Born | Edward Osborne Wilson June 10, 1929 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
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Fields | Biology |
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Thesis | A Monographic Revision of the Ant Genus Lasius (1955) |
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Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, and writer. Wilson was an influential biologist[3][4][5] who on numerous occasions had been given the nicknames "The New Darwin", "Darwin's natural heir" or "The Darwin of the 21st century".[6][7][8] His biological specialty was myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he was called the world's leading expert,[9][10] and was nicknamed Ant Man.[11]
Wilson has been called "the father of sociobiology" and "the father of biodiversity"[12] for his environmental advocacy, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters.[13] Among his greatest contributions to ecological theory is the theory of island biogeography, which he developed in collaboration with the mathematical ecologist Robert MacArthur. This theory served as the foundation of the field of conservation area design, as well as the unified neutral theory of biodiversity of Stephen P. Hubbell.
Wilson was[update] the Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, a lecturer at Duke University,[14] and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. The Royal Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize, awarded Dr. Wilson the Crafoord Prize, an award designed to cover areas not covered by Nobel Prizes (biology, oceanography, mathematics, astronomy etc.). He was a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.[15][16] He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (for On Human Nature in 1979, and The Ants in 1991) and a New York Times bestselling author for The Social Conquest of Earth,[17] Letters to a Young Scientist,[17][18] and The Meaning of Human Existence.
Wilson was recognised as one of the most important scientist and influential people in the world on numerous occasions, including by Time and Encyclopædia Britannica.[19][20] Wilson received more than 150 prestigious awards and medals around the world, and was an honorary member of more than 30 world renowned and prestigious organizations, academies and institutions. Several animal species have been scientifically named in his honor, mostly ant species as well as one bird[21] and one bat species.
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Early life
Edward Osborne Wilson was born on June 10, 1929, in Birmingham, Alabama, to Inez Linnette Freeman and Edward Osborne Wilson.[22] According to his autobiography Naturalist, he grew up in various towns in the Southern United States including Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida.[23] From an early age, he was interested in natural history. His parents divorced when he was seven.
In the same year that his parents divorced, Wilson blinded himself in one eye in a fishing accident. He suffered for hours, but he continued fishing.[24] He did not complain because he was anxious to stay outdoors. He did not seek medical treatment.[24] Several months later, his right pupil clouded over with a cataract.[24] He was admitted to Pensacola Hospital to have the lens removed.[24] Wilson writes, in his autobiography, that the "surgery was a terrifying [19th] century ordeal".[24] Wilson retained full sight in his left eye, with a vision of 20/10.[24] The 20/10 vision prompted him to focus on "little things": "I noticed butterflies and ants more than other kids did, and took an interest in them automatically."[24]
Although he had lost his stereoscopic vision, he could still see fine print and the hairs on the bodies of small insects.[24] His reduced ability to observe mammals and birds led him to concentrate on insects.
At the age of nine, Wilson undertook his first expeditions at the Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC. He began to collect insects and he gained a passion for butterflies. He would capture them using nets made with brooms, coat hangers, and cheesecloth bags.[24] Going on these expeditions led to Wilson's fascination with ants. He describes in his autobiography how one day he pulled the bark of a rotting tree away and discovered citronella ants underneath.[24] The worker ants he found were "short, fat, brilliant yellow, and emitted a strong lemony odor".[24] Wilson said the event left a "vivid and lasting impression on [him]".[24] He also earned the Eagle Scout award and served as Nature Director of his Boy Scout summer camp. At age 18, intent on becoming an entomologist, he began by collecting flies, but the shortage of insect pins caused by World War II caused him to switch to ants, which could be stored in vials. With the encouragement of Marion R. Smith, a myrmecologist from the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, Wilson began a survey of all the ants of Alabama. This study led him to report the first colony of fire ants in the U.S., near the port of Mobile.[25][26]
Education
Wilson was concerned that he might not be able to afford to go to a university, and tried to enlist in the United States Army, intending to earn U.S. government financial support for his education. He failed the Army medical examination due to his impaired eyesight,[24] but was able to afford to enroll in the University of Alabama after all, and earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in biology there in 1950. In 1951 Wilson transferred to Harvard University.[24]
Appointed to the Harvard Society of Fellows, he could travel on overseas expeditions, collecting ant species of Cuba and Mexico and travel the South Pacific, including Australia, New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia, and Sri Lanka. In 1955, he received his Ph.D. and married Irene Kelley.[27][28]
Career
From 1956 until 1996, Wilson was part of the faculty of Harvard. He began as an ant taxonomist and worked on understanding their microevolution, how they developed into new species by escaping environmental disadvantages and moving into new habitats. He developed a theory of the "taxon cycle".[27]
In collaboration with mathematician William H. Bossert, Wilson developed a classification of pheromones based on insect communication patterns.[29] In the 1960s, he collaborated with mathematician and ecologist Robert MacArthur in developing the theory of species equilibrium. In the 1970s he and Daniel S. Simberloff tested this theory on tiny mangrove islets in the Florida Keys. They eradicated all insect species and observed the re-population by new species.[30] Wilson and MacArthur's book The Theory of Island Biogeography became a standard ecology text.[27]
In 1971, he published The Insect Societies, which argues that insect behavior and the behavior of other animals are influenced by similar evolutionary pressures.[31] In 1973, Wilson was appointed 'Curator of Insects' at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. In 1975, he published the book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis applying his theories of insect behavior to vertebrates, and in the last chapter, humans. He speculated that evolved and inherited tendencies were responsible for hierarchical social organisation among humans. In 1978 he published On Human Nature, which dealt with the role of biology in the evolution of human culture and won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.[27]
In 1981 after collaborating with Charles Lumsden, he published Genes, Mind and Culture, a theory of gene-culture coevolution. In 1990 he published The Ants, co-written with Bert Hölldobler, his second Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.[27]
In the 1990s, he published The Diversity of Life (1992), an autobiography: Naturalist (1994), and Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998) about the unity of the natural and social sciences.[27]
Retirement and death
In 1996, Wilson officially retired from Harvard University, where he continued to hold the positions of Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology. He founded the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, which finances the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and is an "independent foundation" at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. Wilson became a special lecturer at Duke University as part of the agreement.[32]
Wilson and his wife, Irene, resided in Lexington, Massachusetts.[27] He had a daughter, Catherine.[33] He died in nearby Burlington on December 26, 2021, at the age of 92.[22]
Work
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, 1975
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Wilson used sociobiology and evolutionary principles to explain the behavior of social insects and then to understand the social behavior of other animals, including humans, thus establishing sociobiology as a new scientific field.[34] He argued that all animal behavior, including that of humans, is the product of heredity, environmental stimuli, and past experiences, and that free will is an illusion. He referred to the biological basis of behavior as the "genetic leash".[35]:127–128 The sociobiological view is that all animal social behavior is governed by epigenetic rules worked out by the laws of evolution. This theory and research proved to be seminal, controversial, and influential.[36]
Wilson argued that the unit of selection is a gene, the basic element of heredity. The target of selection is normally the individual who carries an ensemble of genes of certain kinds. With regard to the use of kin selection in explaining the behavior of eusocial insects, the "new view that I'm proposing is that it was group selection all along, an idea first roughly formulated by Darwin."[37]
Sociobiological research was at the time particularly controversial with regard to its application to humans.[38] The theory established a scientific argument for rejecting the common doctrine of tabula rasa, which holds that human beings are born without any innate mental content and that culture functions to increase human knowledge and aid in survival and success.[39] In the final chapter of the book Sociobiology, Wilson argued that the human mind is shaped as much by genetic inheritance as it is by culture if not more. There are, Wilson suggested in the chapter, limits on just how much influence social and environmental factors can have in altering human behavior.[40]
Reception
Sociobiology was initially met with substantial criticism. Several of Wilson's colleagues at Harvard,[41] such as Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould, were strongly opposed to his ideas regarding sociobiology. Gould, Lewontin, and others from the Sociobiology Study Group from the Boston area wrote "Against 'Sociobiology'" in an open letter criticizing Wilson's "deterministic view of human society and human action".[42] Although attributed to members of the Sociobiology Study Group, it seems that Lewontin was the main author.[43] In a 2011 interview, Wilson said, "I believe Gould was a charlatan. I believe that he was ... seeking reputation and credibility as a scientist and writer, and he did it consistently by distorting what other scientists were saying and devising arguments based upon that distortion."[44]
There was also political opposition. Sociobiology re-ignited the nature and nurture debate. Wilson was accused of racism, misogyny, and sympathy to eugenics.[45] In one incident in November 1978, his lecture was attacked by the International Committee Against Racism, a front group of the Marxist Progressive Labor Party, where one member poured a pitcher of water on Wilson's head and chanted "Wilson, you're all wet" at an AAAS conference.[46] Wilson later reflected with pride that he was willing to pursue scientific truth despite such attacks : "I believe ... I was the only scientist in modern times to be physically attacked for an idea."[47][33]
Philosopher Mary Midgley encountered Sociobiology in the process of writing Beast and Man (1979)[48] and significantly rewrote the book to offer a critique of Wilson's views. Midgley praised the book for the study of animal behavior, clarity, scholarship, and encyclopedic scope, but extensively critiqued Wilson for conceptual confusion, scientism, and anthropomorphism of genetics.[49] The book and its reception were mentioned in Jonathan Haidt's book The Righteous Mind.[50]
On Human Nature, 1978
Wilson wrote in his 1978 book On Human Nature, "The evolutionary epic is probably the best myth we will ever have."[51] Wilson's fame prompted use of the morphed phrase epic of evolution.[13] The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979.[52]
The Ants, 1990
Wilson, along with Bert Hölldobler, carried out a systematic study of ants and ant behavior,[53] culminating in the 1990 encyclopedic work The Ants. Because much self-sacrificing behavior on the part of individual ants can be explained on the basis of their genetic interests in the survival of the sisters, with whom they share 75% of their genes (though the actual case is some species' queens mate with multiple males and therefore some workers in a colony would only be 25% related), Wilson argued for a sociobiological explanation for all social behavior on the model of the behavior of the social insects.
Wilson said in reference to ants "Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species".[54] He asserted that individual ants and other eusocial species were able to reach higher Darwinian fitness putting the needs of the colony above their own needs as individuals because they lack reproductive independence: individual ants cannot reproduce without a queen, so they can only increase their fitness by working to enhance the fitness of the colony as a whole. Humans, however, do possess reproductive independence, and so individual humans enjoy their maximum level of Darwinian fitness by looking after their own survival and having their own offspring.[55]
Consilience, 1998
In his 1998 book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Wilson discussed methods that have been used to unite the sciences, and might be able to unite the sciences with the humanities. He argued that knowledge is a single, unified thing, not divided between science and humanistic inquiry.[56] Wilson used the term "consilience" to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor. He defined human nature as a collection of epigenetic rules, the genetic patterns of mental development. He argued that culture and rituals are products, not parts, of human nature. He said art is not part of human nature, but our appreciation of art is. He suggested that concepts such as art appreciation, fear of snakes, or the incest taboo (Westermarck effect) could be studied by scientific methods of the natural sciences and be part of interdisciplinary research.
Spiritual and political beliefs
Scientific humanism
Wilson coined the phrase scientific humanism as "the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature".[57] Wilson argued that it is best suited to improve the human condition. In 2003, he was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.[58]
God and religion
On the question of God, Wilson described his position as provisional deism[59] and explicitly denied the label of "atheist", preferring "agnostic".[60] He explained his faith as a trajectory away from traditional beliefs: "I drifted away from the church, not definitively agnostic or atheistic, just Baptist & Christian no more."[35] Wilson argued that belief in God and the rituals of religion are products of evolution.[61] He argued that they should not be rejected or dismissed, but further investigated by science to better understand their significance to human nature. In his book The Creation, Wilson wrote that scientists ought to "offer the hand of friendship" to religious leaders and build an alliance with them, stating that "Science and religion are two of the most potent forces on Earth and they should come together to save the creation."[62]
Wilson made an appeal to the religious community on the lecture circuit at Midland College, Texas, for example, and that "the appeal received a 'massive reply'", that a covenant had been written and that a "partnership will work to a substantial degree as time goes on".[63]
In a New Scientist interview published on January 21, 2015, however, Wilson said that "Religion 'is dragging us down' and must be eliminated 'for the sake of human progress'", and "So I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths."[64]
Ecology
Wilson said that, if he could start his life over he would work in microbial ecology, when discussing the reinvigoration of his original fields of study since the 1960s.[65] He studied the mass extinctions of the 20th century and their relationship to modern society, and in 1998 argued for an ecological approach at the Capitol:
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Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds fluttering around in the canopy. You are drastically imperiling a vast array of species within a few square miles of you. The number of these species may go to tens of thousands. ... Many of them are still unknown to science, and science has not yet discovered the key role undoubtedly played in the maintenance of that ecosystem, as in the case of fungi, microorganisms, and many of the insects.[66]
From the late 1970s Wilson was actively involved in the global conservation of biodiversity, contributing and promoting research. In 1984 he published Biophilia, a work that explored the evolutionary and psychological basis of humanity's attraction to the natural environment. This work introduced the word biophilia which influenced the shaping of modern conservation ethics. In 1988 Wilson edited the BioDiversity volume, based on the proceedings of the first US national conference on the subject, which also introduced the term biodiversity into the language. This work was very influential in creating the modern field of biodiversity studies.[67] In 2011, Wilson led scientific expeditions to the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique and the archipelagos of Vanuatu and New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific. Wilson was part of the international conservation movement, as a consultant to Columbia University's Earth Institute, as a director of the American Museum of Natural History, Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund.[27]
Understanding the scale of the extinction crisis led him to advocate for forest protection,[66] including the "Act to Save America's Forests", first introduced in 1998, until 2008, but never passed.[68] The Forests Now Declaration calls for new markets-based mechanisms to protect tropical forests.[69] Wilson once said destroying a rainforest for economic gain was like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.[33] In 2014, Wilson called for setting aside 50% of the earth's surface for other species to thrive in as the only possible strategy to solve the extinction crisis.[70] Wilson's influence regarding ecology through popular science was covered by Alan G. Gross in The Scientific Sublime (2018).[71]
Wilson was instrumental in launching the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)[72] initiative with the goal of creating a global database to include information on the 1.9 million species recognized by science. Currently, it includes information on practically all known species. This open and searchable digital repository for organism traits, measurements, interactions and other data has more than 300 international partners and countless scientists to provide global user access to knowledge of life on Earth. For his part, Wilson discovered and described more than 400 species of ants.[73][74]
Awards and honors
Wilson's scientific and conservation honors include:
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1959[75]
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences, elected 1969[76]
- U.S. National Medal of Science, 1977[28]
- Leidy Award, 1979, from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia[77]
- Pulitzer Prize for On Human Nature, 1979[78]
- Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1984[28]
- ECI Prize, International Ecology Institute, terrestrial ecology, 1987[79]
- Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden, 1987[80]
- Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, 1988[81]
- His books The Insect Societies and Sociobiology: The New Synthesis were honored with the Science Citation Classic award by the Institute for Scientific Information.[82]
- Crafoord Prize, 1990, a prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences[83]
- Pulitzer Prize for The Ants (with Bert Hölldobler), 1991[84]
- International Prize for Biology, 1993[28]
- Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science, 1994[85]
- The National Audubon Society's Audubon Medal, 1995[28]
- Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential People in America, 1995[84]
- Certificate of Distinction, International Congresses of Entomology, Florence, Italy 1996[86]
- Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society, 1998.[87]
- American Humanist Association's 1999 Humanist of the Year[84]
- Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, 2000[88]
- Nierenberg Prize, 2001[28]
- Distinguished Eagle Scout Award 2004[89]
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab christened one of its research vessel the R/V E.O. Wilson.[90]
- Linnean Tercentenary Silver Medal, 2006[91]
- Addison Emery Verrill Medal from the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2007[92]
- TED Prize 2007[93] given yearly to honor a maximum of three individuals who have shown that they can, in some way, positively impact life on this planet.
- XIX Premi Internacional Catalunya 2007[94]
- Member of the World Knowledge Dialogue[95] Honorary Board, and Scientist in Residence for the 2008 symposium organized in Crans-Montana (Switzerland).
- E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center[96] on Nokuse Plantation in Walton County, Florida 2009 video[97]
- The Explorers Club Medal, 2009[98]
- 2010 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology Category[99]
- Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture, 2010[100]
- 2010 Heartland Prize for fiction for his first novel Anthill: A Novel[101]
- EarthSky Science Communicator of the Year, 2010[102]
- International Cosmos Prize, 2012[103]
- Kew International Medal (2014)[2]
- Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from the American Museum of Natural History (2014)[104]
- 2016 Harper Lee Award[105][106]
- Commemoration in the species' epithet of Myrmoderus eowilsoni (2018)[107]
- Commemoration in the species' epithet of Miniopterus wilsoni (2020)[108]
Main works
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- The Theory of Island Biogeography, 1967, Princeton University Press (2001 reprint), ISBN 0-691-08836-5, with Robert H. MacArthur
- The Insect Societies, 1971, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-45490-1
- Sociobiology: The New Synthesis 1975, Harvard University Press, (Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 2000 ISBN 0-674-00089-7)
- On Human Nature, 1979, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-01638-6, winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
- Genes, Mind and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process, 1981, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-34475-8
- Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind, 1983, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-71445-8
- Biophilia, 1984, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-07441-6
- Success and Dominance in Ecosystems: The Case of the Social Insects, 1990, Inter-Research, ISSN 0932-2205
- The Ants, 1990, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-04075-9, Winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize, with Bert Hölldobler
- The Diversity of Life, 1992, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-21298-3, The Diversity of Life: Special Edition, ISBN 0-674-21299-1
- The Biophilia Hypothesis, 1993, Shearwater Books, ISBN 1-55963-148-1, with Stephen R. Kellert
- Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration, 1994, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-48525-4, with Bert Hölldobler
- Naturalist, 1994, Shearwater Books, ISBN 1-55963-288-7
- In Search of Nature, 1996, Shearwater Books, ISBN 1-55963-215-1, with Laura Simonds Southworth
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, 1998, Knopf, ISBN 0-679-45077-7
- The Future of Life, 2002, Knopf, ISBN 0-679-45078-5
- Pheidole in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus, 2003, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-00293-8
- The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, September 2006, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-06217-5
- Nature Revealed: Selected Writings 1949–2006, ISBN 0-8018-8329-6
- The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, 2009, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-06704-0, with Bert Hölldobler
- Anthill: A Novel, April 2010, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-07119-1
- Kingdom of Ants: Jose Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World, 2010, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, with José María Gómez Durán ISBN 0801897858
- The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct, 2011, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-33868-3, with Bert Hölldobler
- The Social Conquest of Earth, 2012, Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, ISBN 0871403633
- Letters to a Young Scientist, 2014, Liveright, ISBN 0871403854
- A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park, 2014, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 1476747415
- The Meaning of Human Existence, 2014, Liveright, ISBN 0871401002
- Half-Earth, 2016, Liveright, ISBN 978-1-63149-082-8
- The Origins of Creativity, 2017, Liveright, ISBN 978-1-63149-318-8
- Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies, 2019, Liveright; ISBN 1-63149-554-2
- Tales from the Ant World, 2020, Liveright, ISBN 9781631495564[110][111]
- Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation November 10, 2020, Island Press; ISBN 978-1610919586 [112]
Edited works
- From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books, edited with introductions by Edward O. Wilson (2005 W.W. Norton) ISBN 0393061345
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