E.o. wilson education
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Edward O. Wilson, Ph.D.
Considering how much you were quoted out of context, it might not have made much of a difference.
Edward O. Wilson: That’s true. Even today. My latest major life effort is biodiversity conservation. A book called The Future of Life, I just sent it off to the publisher about a month ago actually, and the response from my editor was, “You mention genetic engineering, and you are favorable to it in principle because you think that the increase of productivity of land already under cultivation, the introduction of a second green revolution, will take the pressure off the wild lands and be a positive force, genetic engineering for saving biodiversity.” That’s the argument I give in one paragraph. And my editor, who is a very smart woman, said, “You’re in a mine field again, because the whole world, and particularly Europe, is in a complete frenzy over what they see as the dangers of genetic engineering.” So I said, “Boy, I’m not going to have another sociobiology event.” I had a considerable libra
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E. O. Wilson
American biologist, naturalist, and writer (1929–2021)
Edward Osborne WilsonForMemRS (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing the field of sociobiology.
Born in Alabama, Wilson found an early interest in nature and frequented the outdoors. At age seven, he was partially blinded in a fishing accident; due to his reduced sight, Wilson resolved to study entomology. After graduating from the University of Alabama, Wilson transferred to complete his dissertation at Harvard University, where he distinguished himself in multiple fields. In 1956, he co-authored a paper defining the theory of character displacement. In 1967, he developed the theory of island biogeography with Robert MacArthur.
Wilson was the Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, a lecturer at Duke University,[2] and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. The Royal Swedish Academy awarded Wilson
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During the first 20 years of this century, the art of illustration enjoyed extraordinary popularity. It was the Golden Age of Gibson, Abbey, Pyle and Wyeth, among others. The prestige of the illustrator had reached such heights that the profession was attracting distinguished painters such as Sloan, Glackens, Boardman Robinson, Bellows, Luks, and Shinn, and it was a brave publisher who dared produce a book in this era without the attendant services of the artist-illustrator. But by World War I the momentum had been disrupted and the era became part of art history. Shifting popular tastes were as easily satisfied by imitations and stereotypes, and the virile, romantic styles of the giants were being replaced by posture and sentimentality. New giants were in the making, however, and among them emerged the enduring personality of Edward Arthur Wilson.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1886, his early childhood was spent in Rotterdam, and then in Chicago, where he received his first art instruction at the Chicago Art Institute.
Although established in New York by 1921, the work of Edwar
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