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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

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