As salmon population dissipates, so too does an ancient connection Nov 15, 2009
Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson warns that "humanity is in a final struggle with the rest of life," and believes that unless we change our ways, half the species on Earth will be gone by the end of the 21st century, gone into what he calls "the dawnless night of extinction.". We already see the economic poverty of such an age, with fishing boats idle in harbors and San Joaquin farmers struggling without enough water. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Fire Ant Outcompetes Other Species, Even In Its Native Habitat Jul 15, 2009
28, 2005) Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson believes he's solved twin centuries-old mysteries of Caribbean island ant plagues that devastated local agriculture. If Wilson is right, the episodes show. (Science Daily)
Knowing Our Place: Fullness of life Jul 11, 2009
Concord author/naturalist Peter Alden, conservation biologist Richard Primack and Harvard professor Dr. Edward O. Wilson visit Estabrook Woods in Concord as part of Walden Biodiversity Day ... The purpose was to underscore the value of biodiversity and to salute the 80th birthday of distinguished biologist Dr. Edward O. Wilson, the ant specialist whose writings on our human need for nature have made him a beloved force for conservation. (Lincoln Journal, MA)
Newsweek: Why do we really rape and kill? Jun 26, 2009
When Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson proposed that there exists a biologically based human nature, and that it included such traits as militarism and male domination of women, left-wing activistsincluding eminent biologists in his own departmentassailed it as an attempt "to provide a genetic justification of the status quo and of existing privileges for certain groups according to class, race, or sex" analogous to the scientific justification for Nazi eugenics. When Thornhill appeared... (MSNBC -- Health)
Ants get their place in Smithsonian exhibit Jun 1, 2009
Also on display will be a new portrait of biologist Edward O. Wilson, showing him in his office at Harvard University, surrounded by items symbolic of his research- microscope, magnifying glass, books and a large, wooden ant model. The Natural History museum is also home to the National Collection of Ants, a reference collection launched in 1881 and now containing more than 1 million specimens representing more than 5,000 ant species. (Yahoo News)
People seek out MC ant to get day off work Apr 17, 2009
He said while trying to find out more about the ant, the squad sent specimens and pictures to Universiti Sains Malaysias entomologist Prof Dr Lee Chow Wang, US entomologists Prof Dr Philip S. Ward of the University of California and Prof Dr Edward O. Wilson of Harvard Uni-versity. After they confirmed and identified the species, it was much easier for us to send out information to the public so that they would be careful not to get bitten by this ant, Raju said. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Neko Case is an animal Apr 7, 2009
She sings so in a song called "I'm an Animal." Do you know the Edward O. Wilson notion of biophilia. "Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life," writes Wilson. (Salon)
IN SCHOOL - Education roundup Apr 1, 2009
Steve Running, Regents Professor of Ecology at UM, will be among six to receive the first-ever Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award in April. UM School of Education faculty members John and Rita Sommers-Flanagan, authors of Clinical Interviewing, are among the authors of Notable New Books included in the third-quarter report released by John Wiley Inc.. (Missoulian, MT)
Hundreds Of Natural-selection Studies Could Be Wrong, Study Demonstrates Apr 1, 2009
4, 2008) A survey of advanced social organization in insects calls into question the standard explanation for eusociality Biologist Edward O. Wilson argues that natural selection acting on emergent traits of. (Apr. (Science Daily)
Scientists begin to decode the history of human evolution Feb 14, 2009
Evolution in a pure Darwinian world has no goal or purpose, biologist Edward O. Wilson wrote in the introduction to a collection of Darwin s writings a few years ago. In other words, evolution is not like an arrow shot at a target, but like a blind dog stumbling across an obstacle-strewn landscape. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Health)
Social Darwinism: Darwins ideology Feb 8, 2009
When American biologist Edward O. Wilson in the mid-1970s created the discipline of socio-biology, whose central tenet is that human behaviour is largely determined by our genetic endowment, he was engulfed in controversy. "Genes hold culture on a leash," he famously said. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
