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People would rather believe than know.
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Birth: | 10th June, 1929 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Biologist, Naturalist, Professor, Researcher |
Edward Osborne Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. He is an American biologist, researcher, naturalist, professor, and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the world's leading expert. He is the father of sociobiology. He is the Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and a New York Times bestseller for The Social Conquest of Earth, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Meaning of Human Existence.
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