Edward O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson () var ein USA-amerikansk biolog oppvaksen i Alabama og Washington D.C., som hovudsakleg er kjend som grunnleggjar av sosiobiologien. Han har òg vore særs viktig i forskinga på maur, i tillegg til å vera ein ivrig talsmann for bevaring av det biologiske mangfaldet.

 Hovudverk 
 , med William Brown Jr.; æra i 1986 som ein Science Citation Classic, dvs. ein av dei mest siterte vitskaplege artiklane nokon gong.
 The Theory of Island Biogeography, 1967, Princeton University Press (2001 reprint), , med Robert H. MacArthur
 The Insect Societies, 1971, Harvard University Press, 
 Sociobiology: The New Synthesis 1975, Harvard University Press, (Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 2000 )
 On Human Nature, 1979, Harvard University Press, , vann Pulitzerprisen 1979  for «General Nonfiction».
 Genes, Mind and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process, 1981, Harvard University Press, 
 Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind, 1983, Harvard University Press, 
 Biophilia, 1984, Harvard University Press, 
 Success and Dominance in Ecosystems: The Case of the Social Insects, 1990, Inter-Research, 
 The Ants, 1990, Harvard University Press, , vann Pulitzerprisen 1991, med Bert Hölldobler
 The Diversity of Life, 1992, Harvard University Press, , The Diversity of Life: Special Edition, 
 The Biophilia Hypothesis, 1993, Shearwater Books, , med Stephen R. Kellert
 Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration, 1994, Harvard University Press, , med Bert Hölldobler
 Naturalist, 1994, Shearwater Books, 
 In Search of Nature, 1996, Shearwater Books, , med Laura Simonds Southworth
 Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, 1998, Knopf, 
 The Future of Life, 2002, Knopf, 
 Pheidole in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus, 2003, Harvard University Press, 
 The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, September 2006, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 
 Nature Revealed: Selected Writings 1949–2006, 
 The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, 2009, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. , med Bert Hölldobler
 Anthill: A Novel, April 2010, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 
 Kingdom of Ants: Jose Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World, 2010, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, med José María Gómez Durán 
 The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct, 2011, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. , med Bert Hölldobler
 The Social Conquest of Earth, 2012, Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 
 Letters to a Young Scientist, 2014, Liveright, 
 A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park, 2014, Simon & Schuster, 
 The Meaning of Human Existence, 2014, Liveright, 
 Half-Earth, 2016, Liveright, 
 The Origins of Creativity, 2017, Liveright, 
 Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies, 2019, Liveright; 
 Tales from the Ant World, 2020, Liveright,  
 Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation November 10, 2020, Island Press; 

Som redaktør
 From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books, red. og forord av Edward O. Wilson (2005, W. W. Norton) 

Kjelder

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Kategori:Folk frå Alabama
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