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E.O. Wilson on the 'Knockout Gene' that Allows Mankind to Dominate Earth
Famed evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson argues that humans came to dominate the Earth thanks to a social condition called eusociality.
April 10, 2015
E.O. Wilson: Synthetic Biology Will Radically Change the World
The legendary biologist talks about ultimate biology breakthroughs we can expect in the next several decades and how the creation of artificial life, coupled with the advancement of artificial intelligence, will change the human race.
January 16, 2015
Pheromones and Other Stimuli We Humans Don't Get, with E.O. Wilson
Biologist Edward O. Wilson takes us through several natural stimuli that humans don't understand yet are used by various animals to navigate and communicate within communities.
January 13, 2015
E.O. Wilson on the Importance of Biodiversity
The famous biologist discusses his life's work in conservation and his efforts to save the ecosphere.
December 18, 2014
E.O. Wilson: What Does E.T. Really Look Like?
The Pulitzer-winning biologist draws from our own knowledge of evolution and Darwinian theory to posit the physical and mental characteristics of extraterrestrial life.
November 21, 2014
Science, Not Philosophy, Will Explain the Meaning of Existence
Biologist Edward O. Wilson calls philosophy a "highly endangered academic species" and suggests that explaining the meaning of human existence necessarily falls to science instead.
November 03, 2014
Edward O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson is an American biologist (Myrmecology, a branch of entomology), researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), and naturalist (conservationism). Wilson is known for his career as a scientist, his advocacy for environmentalism, and his secular humanist ideas concerned with religious and ethical matters.
A Harvard professor for four decades, he has written twenty books, won two Pulitzer prizes, and discovered hundreds of new species. Considered to be one of the world's greatest living scientists, Dr. Wilson is often called "the father of biodiversity," (a word that he coined). He is the Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.
