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“Arresting…Deeply informative and provocative.”—Booklist GENESIS: The Deep Origins of Societies by E.O. Wilson At almost 90 years old, Edward O. Wilson is our greatest living biologist. Ever passionate about exploring our origins on earth, he is back with GENESIS, an eloquent, enlightening survey of social behavior that traces humanity’s advanced capacity for language, empathy, and cooperati

This article was originally published in the New York Times, August 3, 2019. Wild dogs have returned to the famed Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. The first puppy litters were not far behind. By Natalie Angier Last summer, not long after releasing a pioneer pack of 14 African wild dogs into Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park as part of an ambitious wildlife restoration effort, Paola Bouley

  By Don Lyman This article was originally published in the Boston Globe, July 17, 2019 Earlier this month, more than 100 scientists and naturalists, along with several hundred members of the public, converged on Concord to participate in the third Great Walden BioBlitz. They also were there to celebrate the 90th birthday of renowned Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson, in recognition of his leader