- Born
- Died
- Birth nameEdward Osborn Wilson
- Nickname
- Ant Man
- E.O. Wilson was born on June 10, 1929 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. He is known for Overland (2020), World at War and E.O. Wilson: Of Ants and Men (2015). He was married to Irene Kelley . He died on December 26, 2021 in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpouseIrene Kelley (1955 - August 2021) (her death, 1 child)
- Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for his scientific study, "Ants".
- Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for his book, "On Human Nature".
- Awarded the National Medal of Science in 1977.
- He earned a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Alabama. He received his doctorate in biology from Harvard.
- When Homo sapiens passed the six-billion mark we had already exceeded by perhaps as much as 100 times the biomass of any large animal species that ever existed on the land.
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