The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences announces the launch of “Love Nature: The Biophilia Podcast,” debuting with iconic biologist Dr. Edward O. Wilson as its first guest, Sept. 15. The podcast, co-hosted by Museum Director and CEO Dr. Eric Dorfman, along with the Museum’s Chi
This article was originally published in The Economist, September 3, 2020 A Bug’s Life: Ants and humans Have Shaped Each Other’s Destinies Edward Wilson complements scientific observation with personal anecdotes Ants and people have much in common, Edward Wilson explains. Both are soc
Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants, from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest. “Ants are the most warlike of all animals, with colony pitted against colony,” writes E.O. Wilson, one of the world’s most bel
This Opinion piece originally appeared in The New York Times on August 21, 2020. When ants are accidentally marked as dead, they find a way to rejoin the living. By Edward O. Wilson Dr. Wilson is an emeritus professor at Harvard and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. Every corpse is a
Each year, the editors of the Journal of Natural History award the E.O. Wilson Research Prize to one outstanding paper for excellence in natural history research. This year, the award went to “Description and biology of two new egg parasitoid species (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammati
By Steve Donoghue This article originally appeared in the Boston Globe on August 13, 2020 Ants just naturally prompt comparisons with space aliens, and renowned naturalist and emeritus Harvard University professor Edward O. Wilson isn’t two pages into his latest book, “Tales From
Mozambique, Africa – A new study just published in the scientific journal Acta Chiropterologica, authored by Ara Monadjem, Jen Guyton, Piotr Naskrecki, Leigh R. Richards, Anna S. Kropff, and Desire L. Dalton has described a new bat species in southern Africa. Named Miniopterus wilsoni
“In my judgement, the best naturalist in the world is Piotr Neskrecki.” – E.O. Wilson Take a trip to Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique with Half-Earth Chair Piotr Naskrecki, Half-Earth Scholar Ricardo Guta, and researcher Norina Vicente, who will share the deep scient
“In my judgment, the best naturalist in the world is Piotr Naskrecki,” said E.O. Wilson during Half-Earth Day 2019, introducing the Half-Earth Chair and Associate Director of the E.O. Wilson Lab in Gorongosa National Park. “Now that diagnosis is not casual. It
This article was originally published in The Bitter Southerner on April 21, 2020 Story by Caleb Johnson | Photographs by Irina Zhorov In the 1940s, E.O. Wilson was an Alabama teenager who wandered the bottomland around Mobile and studied its creatures. He never stopped and became the