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*, 
* *[[Biophilia hypothesis|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 (book)|Naturalist]]*, 1994, Shearwater Books, 
* *In Search of Nature*, 1996, Shearwater Books, , med Laura Simonds Southworth
* *[[Consilience (book)|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
* **, 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) 

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