E. O. Wilson  

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E. O. Wilson (1929 – 2021) was an American writer, biologist and naturalist best-known for his book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975).

He was a researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), naturalist (conservationist) and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants.

Wilson was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. He is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters.

Main works

• 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
• 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, 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
• 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, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 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. [1] In 2010 Wilson published a novel entitled

Edited Works

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

Television

• Sociobiology: The Human Animal

See also

• Sociobiology
• Biodiversity
• Biophilia Hypothesis
• Westermarck effect
• Green economics
• Evolutionary psychology
• Human behavioral ecology
• Dual inheritance theory
• Richard Machalek
• Laura Simonds Southworth
• Barry Lopez
• Bert Hölldobler
• Myrmecology
• Superorganism
• Biomass
• Encyclopedia of Life
• The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll
• Ethnic nepotism