Category: E.O. Wilson Memorial
E.O. Wilson: A Life in Nature, Citizen of the Biosphere
In what he described as an “accident in a haphazard life,” as a child E.O Wilson lost vision in his right eye when a spine from a perchlike pinfish he had caught while fishing jerked out of the water and penetrated his pupil. That injury coupled with a congenital loss of hearing left a teenaged …
This article is available for free to all.Three Tributes to E.O. Wilson: Was He Our Modern-Day Darwin?
We invited three prominent scientists, all CSI fellows, to give readers their own personal perspectives on E.O. Wilson. Richard Dawkins E.O. Wilson’s Sociobiology was published around the same time as my The Selfish Gene, and I came in for a bit of backlash from the wave of misconceived controversy that enveloped Wilson. It had been …