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A vibrant graphic adaptation of the classic science memoir Regarded as one of the world’s preeminent biologists, Edward O. Wilson spent his boyhood exploring the forests and swamps of south Alabama and the Florida panhandle, collecting snakes, butterflies, and ants—the latter to becom

A LOOK BACK: This 2017 article is posted by kind permission of the Geographical Magazine www.geographical.co.uk by Nigel Winser Nigel Winser meets the 87-year-old ‘father of biodiversity’ fresh from his keynote talk at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawai‘i. His message is cl

Image of E.O. Wilson by Dave Zoboski. In Part II of the “Love Nature: The Biophilia Podcast,” E.O. Wilson explores his concept of Half-Earth, a call to protect half the Earth’s land and sea in order to manage sufficient habitat to reverse the species extinction crisis and ensure

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