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Ants make some people cringe — but for E. O. Wilson and Will Wright, they provide never-ending fascination.
Biologist E. O. Wilson, professor emeritus at Harvard University, is a two-time Pulitzer-winning ant expert who helped develop theories of island biogeography, chemical ecology, and sociobiology. A leader in the modern environmental movement, Wilson has devoted his life to understanding how all forms of life are connected.
Computer game mastermind Will Wright has read every one of Wilson's books. He credits Wilson for inspiring him to develop SimAnt, one of the games he created along with The Sims — the most successful computer game in history — and more recently Spore, in which players create virtual single-cell organisms and evolve those organisms into more complex forms of life.Ants make some people cringe — but for E. O. Wilson and Will Wright, they... more
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Every so often, a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the narrow boundaries of a particular line of research and alters our perspective of the world. Ed Wilson is such a man. His early fascination with ants launched a dazzling scientific career that led him to lift his eyes from the ground to explain the grand scheme of life itself.
When he wrote his book Sociobiology, tracing the origins of animal social behavior from ants to humans, he had little idea of the controversy it would trigger. Not since Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species has evolutionary biology caused such heated debate.
Undeterred by the furor, he went on to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Today, he campaigns for biodiversity and fights to conserve the world's endangered species.Every so often, a giant emerges on the stage of science, someone who transcends the... more
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