-----

E.O. Wilson

Edward O. Wilson is, in an indirect way, responsible for me first visiting Barro Colorado ten years ago. Known to most as a Harvard professor, a prize-wining author (Conciliance; Naturalist; Biophilia; On Human Nature; The Insect Societies; Sociobiology: The New Synthesis), a top-notch myrmecologist, the godfather of the study of sociobiology, a biodiversity proselytizer and the world's expert on Pheidole--the largest genus of ants in the New World--Wilson is, to me, even more.

Back to Reviews and Blurbs