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,[…]
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Wilson served as a lightning rod back in the 1970’s when he first made the outrageous suggestion in a book called “Sociobiology” that human nature exists and it probably has a partial genetic basis.
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