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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2013, ©2013
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads these twenty-one letters, each richly illustrated, with autobiographical anecdotes that illuminate his career--both his successes and his failures--and his motivations for becoming a biologist.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), charts ; 25 cm
Description
"Few biologists in the long history of that science have been as productive, as ground-breaking and as controversial as the Alabama-born Edward Osborne Wilson. At 91 years of age he may be the most eminent American scientist in any field. Fascinated from an early age by the natural world in general and ants in particular, his field work on them and on all social insects has vastly expanded our knowledge of their many species and fascinating ways of...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Profiles soft-spoken Southerner E.O. Wilson, a naturalist renowned for his scientific study of ants that led to his 1975 book Sociobiology : the new synthesis, where he put forth the notion that evolutionary principles could explain social behavior throughout the animal kingdom, including in humans. Shows the evolution of sociobiology from a controversial new discipline to one supported by experimental science that has shown that genes do play a role...
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