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E. O. Wilson

February, 2003

Born

Edward Osborne WilsonJune 10, 1929 (age 84)Birmingham, Alabama,UnitedStates

Nationality American

Fields Biologist

Institutions Harvard University

Alma mater University of AlabamaHarvard University

ThesisA Monographic Revision of the Ant

Genus Lasius(1955)

Doctoralstudents

Daniel SimberloffDonald J. Farish

Known for

Popularizing sociobiologyEpic of EvolutionCharacter displacementIsland biogeography

Notable awards

Pulitzer Prize(1979)Crafoord Prize(1990)Pulitzer Prize(1991)Kistler Prize(2000)

Nierenberg Prize(2001)

Edward Osborne "E. O." Wilson (born June 10, 1929) is anAmericanbiologist,researcher(sociobiology,biodiversity), theorist (consilience,biophilia), naturalist(conservationist) and author. His biological specialty ismyrmecology, the study ofants,on which he is considered to be the world's leading authority.[1][2]
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Wilson is known for his scientific career, his role as "the father ofsociobiology", hisenvironmentaladvocacy, and hissecular-humanistanddeistideas pertaining toreligious and ethical matters.[3]

Wilson was theJoseph Pellegrino University Research Professorin Entomology for the

Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology atHarvard Universityand aFellow of theCommittee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of theInternational Academy of Humanism.[4][5]He is a two-time winner of thePulitzer Prizefor General Non-Fictionand aNew York Timesbestseller forThe Social Conquest of

Earth[6]andLetters to a Young Scientist.[7]

Contents

1 Early life 2 Retirement

3 Theories and beliefso 3.1 Epic of evolutiono 3.2 Sociobiologyo 3.3 Ants and social insectso 3.4 Consilienceo 3.5 The unit and target of selection

4 Spiritual and political beliefso 4.1 Views on religiono 4.2 Scientific humanismo 4.3 God and religiono 4.4 Ecology

5 Criticism of human sociobiology 6 Awards and honors 7 Main works 8 Edited works 9 See also 10 Footnotes 11 External links

Early life

Wilson was born inBirmingham, Alabama. According to his autobiographyNaturalist,he grew up mostly aroundWashington, D.C.and in the countryside aroundMobile,Alabama.[8]From an early age, he was interested in natural history. His parents, Edwardand Inez Wilson, divorced when he was seven. The young naturalist grew up in severalcities and towns, moving around with his father and his stepmother. In the same yearthat his parents divorced, Wilson blinded himself in one eye in a fishing accident. Hesuffered for hours, but he continued fishing.[8]He did not complain because he wasanxious to stay outdoors. He never went in for medical treatment.[8]Several monthslater, his right pupil clouded over with acataract.[8]He was admitted toPensacolaHospitalto have the lens removed.[8]Wilson writes, in his autobiography, that [t]hesurgery was a terrifying [19th] century ordeal.[8]Today, he suffers from the phobia of

being enclosed in a closed space with [his] arms immobilized and [his] face coveredwith an obstruction.[8]Wilson was left with full sight in his left eye, with a vision of
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20/10.[8]He lost hisstereoscopy, but he could see fine print and the hairs on the body ofsmall insects.[8]His reduced ability to observe mammals and birds led him toconcentrate oninsects. At nine, Wilson undertook his first expeditions at theRockCreek Parkin 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.[8]

Going on these expeditions lead to Wilsons fascination with ants.He describes in his autobiography how one day he pulled the bark of a rotting tree awayand discoveredcitronellaants underneath.[8]The worker ants he found were short, fat,

brilliant yellow, and emitted a strong lemony odor.[8]Wilson said the event left a vividand lasting impression on [him].

[8]He also earned theEagle Scoutaward and served asNature Director of hisBoy Scoutsummer camp. At the age of 18, intent on becominganentomologist, he began by collectingflies, but the shortage of insect pins caused byWorld War II caused him to switch toants, which could be stored in vials. With theencouragement ofMarion R. Smith, a myrmecologist from theNational Museum of

Natural Historyin Washington, Wilson began a survey of all the ants ofAlabama. Thisstudy led him to report the first colony of fire ants in the US, near the port of Mobile.[9]

Concerned that he might not be able to afford to go to a university, Wilson attempted toenlist in the United States Army. His plan was to earn U.S. government financialsupport for his education, but he failed his Army medical examination due to hisimpaired eyesight. Wilson was able to afford to enroll in theUniversity of Alabamaafter all. There, he earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees In Biology. He later earned hisPh.D. degree in Biology fromHarvard University.

Retirement

In 1996 he officially retired from teaching at Harvard and continues to hold thepositions of Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator in Entomology.[10]He and hiswife Irene now reside in Lexington, Massachusetts. His daughter, Catherine, and herhusband Jonathan, reside in nearby Stow.[10]

Theories and beliefs

Epic of evolution

"Theevolutionary epic," Wilson wrote in his bookOn Human Nature, "is probably the

best myth we will ever have." Wilson's intended usage of the word "myth" does notdenote falsehood - rather, a grand narrative that provides people with placement intimea meaningful placement that celebrates extraordinary moments of sharedheritage.[11]Wilson was not the first to use the term, but his fame prompted its usage asthe morphed phrase epic of evolution.[3]

Wilson explained the need for the epic of evolution:[12]

Human beings must have an epic, a sublime account of how the world was created andhow humanity became part of it... Religious epics satisfy another primal need. Theyconfirm we are part of something greater than ourselves... The way to achieve our epic

that unites human spirituality, instead of cleave it, it is to compose it from the bestempirical knowledge that science and history can provide.
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The worth of the epic, he said, is that "[t]he true evolutionary epic retold as poetry, is asintrinsically ennobling as any religious epic."[13]

CosmologistBrian Swimmeconcludes in a 1997 interview:[14]

I think that what E. O. Wilson is trying to suggest is that to be fully human, a person hasto see that life has a heroic dimension... I think for the scientist, and for other people, it'sa question of, "Is the universe valuable? Is it sacred? Is it holy? Or is the human agendaall that matters?" I just don't think we're that stupid to continue in a way that continuesto destroy. I'm hopeful that the Epic of Evolution will be yet another strategy in ourculture that will lead our consciousness out of a very tight, human-centered materialism.

Naturalistic and liberal religious writers have picked up on Wilson's term and have usedit in a number of texts. These authors however have at times used other terms to refer tothe idea: Universe Story(Brian Swimme,John F. Haught), Great Story (Connie Barlow,Michael Dowd),Everybody's Story(Loyal Rue[15]),New Story(Thomas Berry,Al Gore,

Brian Swimme) and Cosmic Evolution(Eric Chaisson[16]).[17][18][19]

Sociobiology

Michael McGoodwin paraphrasing and quoting Wilson (pp. 16 and 222) onsociobiology:[20]

Sociobiology is defined as the scientific or systematic study of the biological basis of allforms of social behavior, in all kinds of organisms including man, and incorporatingknowledge from ethology, ecology, and genetics, in order to derive general principles

concerning the biological properties of entire societies. "If humankind evolved byDarwinian natural selection, genetic chance and environmental necessity, not God,made the species." "The brain [and the mind] exists because it promotes the survivaland multiplication of the genes that direct its assembly." The two apparent dilemmas weface therefore are: (1) We lack any goal external to our biological nature (for evenreligions evolve to enhance the persistence and influence of their practitioners). Will thetranscendental goals of societies dissolve, and will our post-ideological societies regresssteadily toward self-indulgence? (2) Morality evolved as instinct. "Which of the censorsand motivators should be obeyed and which ones might better be curtailed orsublimated?"

Although much human diversity in behavior is culturally influenced, some has beenshown to be genetic - rapid acquisition of language, human unpredictability,hypertrophy (extreme growth of pre-existing social structures), altruism and religions."Religious practices that consistently enhance survival and procreation of the

practitioners will propagate the physiological controls that favor the acquisition of thepractices during single lifetimes." Unthinking submission to the communal willpromotes the fitness of the members of the tribe. Even submission to secular religionsand cults involve willing subordination of the individual to the group. Religious

practices confer biological advantages.[20]

Wilson used sociobiology and evolutionary principles to explain the behavior of the

social insects and then to understand the social behavior of other animals, includinghumans, thus established sociobiology as a new scientific field. He argued that all
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animal behavior, including that of humans, is the product ofheredity, environmentalstimuli, and past experiences, and thatfree willis an illusion. He has referred to the

biological basis of behaviour as the "genetic leash."[21]The sociobiological view is thatall animal social behavior is governed byepigeneticrules worked out by the laws ofevolution. This theory and research proved to be seminal, controversial, and

influential.[22]

The controversy of sociobiological research is in how it applies to humans. The theoryestablished a scientific argument for rejecting the common doctrine oftabula rasa,which holds that human beings are born without any innate mental content and thatculture functions to increase human knowledge and aid in survival and success. In thefinal chapter of the bookSociobiology and in the full text of hisPulitzer Prize-winningOn Human Nature, Wilson argues that the human mind is shaped as much by geneticinheritance as it is by culture (if not more). There are limits on just how much influencesocial and environmental factors can have in altering human behavior.

Ants and social insects

Wilson, along withBert Hlldobler, has done a systematic study of ants and antbehavior,[23]culminating in their encyclopedic work,The Ants(1990). Because muchself-sacrificing behavior on the part of individual ants can be explained on the basis oftheir genetic interests in the survival of the sisters, with whom they share 75% of theirgenes (though the actual case is some species' queens mate with multiple males andtherefore some workers in a colony would only be 25% related), Wilson was led toargue for a sociobiological explanation for all social behavior on the model of the

behavior of the social insects. In his more recent work, he has sought to defend hisviews against the criticism of younger scientists such asDeborah Gordon, whose resultschallenge the idea that ant behavior is as rigidly predictable as Wilson's explanationsmake it.

Edward O. Wilson, referring toants, once said that "Karl Marxwas right,socialismworks, it is just that he had the wrong species",[24]meaning that while ants and othereusocialspecies appear to live incommunist-like societies, they only do so because theyare forced to do so from their basic biology, as they lack reproductive independence:worker ants, being sterile, need their ant-queen to survive as a colony and a species andindividual ants cannot reproduce without a queen, thus being forced to live incentralised societies. Humans, however, do possess reproductive independence so they

can give birth to offspring without the need of a "queen", and in fact humans enjoy theirmaximum level of Darwinian fitness only when they look after themselves and theiroffspring, while finding innovative ways to use the societies they live in for their own

benefit.[25]

Consilience

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natureas a collection ofepigeneticrules, the genetic patterns of mental development.He argues that culture and rituals are products, not parts, of human nature. He saysartis
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not part of human nature, but our appreciation of art is. He argues that concepts such asart appreciation, fear of snakes, or theincesttaboo(Westermarck effect) can be studied

by scientific methods of the natural sciences. Previously, these phenomena were onlypart ofpsychological,sociological, oranthropologicalstudies. Wilson proposes thatthey can be part of interdisciplinary research.

The unit and target of selection

Wilson has argued that the "unitof selection is a gene, the basic element of heredity.The targetof selection is normally the individual who carries an ensemble of genes ofcertain kinds." With regard to the use ofkin selectionin explaining the behavior ofeusocialinsects, Wilson said toDiscovermagazine, the "new view that I'm proposing isthat it wasgroup selectionall along, an idea first roughly formulated by Darwin."[26]

Spiritual and political beliefs

Views on religion

As paraphrased by Michael McGoodwin[20]

The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior.Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to think that scientifichumanism and learning will dispel religious belief. Men would rather believe thanknow... A kind of Darwinisticsurvival of the fittesthasoccurred with religions... Theecological principle calledGause's lawholds that competition is maximal betweenspecies with identical needs... Even submission tosecular religionssuch asCommunism

andgurucults involve willing subordination of the individual to the group. Religiouspractices confer biological advantage. The mechanisms of religion include (1)objectification (the reduction of reality to images and definitions that are easilyunderstood and cannot be refuted), (2) commitment through faith (a kind of tribalismenacted through self-surrender), (3) and myth (the narratives that explain the tribe'sfavored position on the earth, often incorporating supernatural forces struggling forcontrol, apocalypse, and millennium). The three great religion categories of today areMarxism, traditional religion, andscientific materialism... Thoughtheologyis not likelyto survive as an independent intellectual discipline, religion will endure for a long timeto come and will not be replaced by scientific materialism.

Scientific humanism

Wilson coined the phrasescientific humanismas "the onlyworldviewcompatible withscience's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature".[27]Wilsonargues that it is best suited to improve the human condition. In 2003 he was one of thesigners of theHumanist Manifesto.[28]

God and religion

On the question ofGod, Wilson has described his position asprovisional deism.[29]He

has explained his faith as a trajectory away from traditional beliefs: "I drifted away fromthe church, not definitivelyagnosticoratheistic, justBaptist&Christianno more."[21]
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Wilson argues that the belief in God and rituals of religion are products ofevolution.[30]He argues that they should not be rejected or dismissed, but further investigated byscience to better understand their significance to human nature. In his bookTheCreation, Wilson suggests that scientists ought to "offer the hand of friendship" toreligious 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 thecreation."[31]

Wilson makes a similar suggestion, and appeal to the religious community, on thelecture circuit. An article on his September 17, 2009 lecture at Midland College, Texas,reports, "he said the appeal received a 'massive reply' and a covenant has been written. 'Ithink that partnership will work to a substantial degree as time goes on,' Wilsonsaid."[32]

Wilson appears in the documentaryBehold The Earth, which inquires into America's"divorce from nature" and therelationship between science and religion.

Ecology

When discussing the reinvigoration of his original fields of study since the 1960s,Wilson has said that if he could start his life over he would work inmicrobialecology.[33]He studied themass extinctionsof the 20th century and their relationship tomodern society, arguing strongly for anecologicalapproach:

Now when you cut a forest, anancient forestin particular, you are not just removing alot of bigtreesand a fewbirdsfluttering around in thecanopy. You are drasticallyimperiling a vast array ofspecieswithin a few square miles of you. The number of thesespecies may go to tens of thousands. ... Many of them are still unknown to science, andscience has not yet discovered the key role undoubtedly played in the maintenance ofthatecosystem, as in the case offungi,microorganisms, and many of theinsects.[34]

His understanding of the scale of the extinction crisis has led him to advocate a numberof strategies for forest protection, including theForests Now Declaration, which callsfor new markets-based mechanisms to protect tropical forests.

Criticism of human sociobiology

Wilson experienced significant criticism for his sociobiological views from severaldifferent communities. The scientific response included several of Wilson's colleaguesat Harvard,[35]such asRichard LewontinandStephen Jay Gould, who were stronglyopposed to his ideas regarding sociobiology.Marshall Sahlins's workThe Use and

Abuse of Biology was a direct criticism of Wilson's theories.[36]

Politically, Wilson's sociobiological ideas have offended someMarxistswho favoredthe idea that human behavior was culturally based. Sociobiology re-ignited thenature-versus-nurturedebate, and Wilson's scientific perspective on human nature led to publicdebate. He was accused of"racism,misogyny, andeugenics."[37]In one incident, his

lecture was attacked by theInternational Committee Against Racism, a front group oftheProgressive Labor Party, where one member poured a pitcher of water on Wilson's
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head and chanted "Wilson, you're all wet" at anAAASconference in November1978.[38]Wilson later spoke of the incident as a source of pride: "I believe...I was theonly scientist in modern times to be physically attacked for an idea."[39]

I believe Gould was a charlatan, Wilson told The Atlantic. I believe that he was ...

seeking reputation and credibility as a scientist and writer, and he did it consistently bydistorting what other scientists were saying and devising arguments based upon thatdistortion.[40]

Religious objections included those of Paul E. Rothrock, who said: "... sociobiology hasthe potential of becoming a religion of scientific materialism."[41]

Awards and honors

Wilson at a "fireside chat" during which he received the Addison Emery Verrill Medalin 2007

Dr. E.O. Wilson addresses the audience at the dedication of the E.O. Wilson BiophiliaCenter at Nokuse Plantation in Walton County, Florida.

Wilson's scientific andconservationhonors include:

Member,National Academy of Sciences, 1969 U.S.National Medal of Science, 1976 Pulitzer PrizeforOn Human Nature,1979 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1984 ECI Prize,International Ecology Institute, terrestrial ecology, 1987 Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award, 1988 Crafoord Prize, 1990, a prize awarded by theRoyal Swedish Academy of

Sciencesin certain sciences not covered by theNobel Prize, and thereforeconsidered the highest award given in the field of ecology
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Pulitzer PrizeforThe Ants(withBert Hlldobler), 1991 International Prize for Biology, 1993 Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science, 1994 Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential People in America, 1995 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciencesof the

American Philosophical Society, 1998.[42]

American Humanist Association's 1999 Humanist of the Year Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, 2000 Nierenberg Prize, 2001 Distinguished Eagle Scout Award2004 Dauphin Island Sea Labchristened its newest research vessel theR/V E.O.

Wilson in 2005. The Linnean Tercentenary Silver Medal, 2006 Addison Emery VerrillMedal from thePeabody Museum of Natural History,

2007 TED Prize 2007given 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 Member of theWorld Knowledge DialogueHonorary Board, and Scientist in

Residence for the 2008 symposium organized in Crans-Montana (Switzerland). Distinguished Lecturer,University of Iowa, 20082009 E.O. Wilson Biophilia Centeron Nokuse Plantation in Walton County, Florida

2009Video Explorers Club Medal, 2009 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology

Category, 2010 Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture, 2010 2010Heartland Prizefor fiction for his first novelAnthill: A Novel[43] EarthSky Science Communicator of the Year,2010

Main works

The Theory of Island Biogeography, 1967, Princeton University Press (2001reprint),ISBN 0-691-08836-5, withRobert H. MacArthur

The Insect Societies, 1971,Harvard University Press,ISBN 0-674-45490-1 Sociobiology: The New Synthesis1975,Harvard University Press, (Twenty-fifth

Anniversary Edition, 2000ISBN 0-674-00089-7) On Human Nature, 1979,Harvard University Press,ISBN 0-674-01638-6 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

Pulitzer Prize, withBert Hlldobler The Diversity of Life, 1992,Harvard University Press,ISBN 0-674-21298-3,The

Diversity of Life: Special Edition,ISBN 0-674-21299-1
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The Biophilia Hypothesis, 1993, Shearwater Books,ISBN 1-55963-148-1, withStephen R. Kellert

Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration, 1994,Harvard UniversityPress,ISBN 0-674-48525-4, withBert Hlldobler

Naturalist, 1994, Shearwater Books,ISBN 1-55963-288-7 In Search of Nature, 1996, Shearwater Books,ISBN 1-55963-215-1, with LauraSimonds 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 From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books. 2005, W. W. Norton. 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, withBertHlldobler

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 theNew World, 2010, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, with Jos MaraGmez Durn

The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct, 2011, W.W. Norton & Company,Inc.ISBN 978-0-393-33868-3, withBert Hlldobler

The Social Conquest of Earth, 2012, Liveright Publishing Corporation, NewYork,ISBN 978-0-87140-413-8

Letters to a Young Scientist, 2013, WW Norton & Company,ISBN 0871407000Edited works

From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books, edited withintroductions by Edward O. Wilson (2010W.W. Norton)

See also

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Sociobiology Biodiversity Biophilia hypothesis Westermarck effect Green economics Evolutionary psychology Human behavioral ecology Dual inheritance theory

Richard Machalek Barry Lopez Bert Hlldobler Myrmecology Superorganism Biomass Encyclopedia of Life The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll

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