Edward Osborne Wilson

See also: Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson , born in 1929 with Birmingham, Alabama, is a Entomologiste and a known Biologiste for his work in evolution and Sociobiologie. It is graduate of Harvard. Wilson is the large specialist in the Fourmi S, in particular in their use of the Phéromone S like means of Communication.

Wilson introduced the term of Biodiversité into the scientific literature.

Wilson affirms that the safeguarding of the Gène, rather than of the individual, is the key of the evolution (a topic explored more in detail by Richard Dawkins in its work the egoistic gene ).
Wilson also studied the massive extinctions of the 20th century, and their relations with the modern society.

Wilson explains: “Now, when you destroy a forest, a old Forêt in particular, you made not only remove large trees and some birds which fly in the foliages. You put in great danger a big number of species on a surface of one mile square around you. The number of these Espèce S can go until tens of thousands. The majority of them are still unknown science, and we do not know yet the probably paramount part which she played in the safeguarding of this ecosystem, like in the case of mushrooms, of the micro-organisms and many insects. ”

Wilson adds: “Immediately Let us give up the concept according to which it is enough to preserve a small portion of original nature, some share, and that one can make what one wants of the remainder of planet. It is a false and extremely dangerous concept. ”

Wilson received many rewards for his work, inter alia the National Medal off Science, the Prix Crafoord, and twice the Prix Pulitzer. He is member of the Council of Honor of the Foundation " Dialog of Savoirs" (World Knowledge Dialogs), and " Scientist in résidence" symposium 2008, organized in the middle of the Valaisan mountains in Switzerland (Notch-Montana).

Its principal works are:

  • The Theory off Island Biogeography (1967)
  • Insect Societies (1971)
  • Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)
  • Sociobiologie , the Rock, Monaco/Paris, Cambridge (the USA), 1987
  • Human nature (One Natural Human) (1978 - Price Pulitzer)
  • Biophilia (1984)
  • Voyage to the fourmis" (The Ants) (1990 - Price Pulitzer, with Bert Holldöbler).
  • the diversity of the life (The Diversity off Life) (1992) Price Pulitzer, Belknap Close off Harvard University Near, Cambridge and at Odile Jacob for the French translation. Re-examined/republished in 2001 at Pinguin' S Books.
  • Naturalist (1995)
  • the unicity of the knowledge (Consilience: The Unity off Knowledge) (1998) - translated into French and published at Laffont
  • the Future of the life

See too

  • the Effect Westermarck

  • the green economy
  • the Sociobiologie
  • Naturalist Magazine
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Gerald Holton
  • Terence Monmaney
  • Stephen R. Kellert
  • Laura Simonds Southworth
  • Tom Kneaded
  • Barry Lopez
  • Charles J. Lumsden
  • Bert Holldöbler
  • Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla

External bonds

  • Wilson

    • Video
  • of a conference on the relation between biology and social sciences

Zh-min-nan: Edward Osborne Wilson

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