He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism. Wilson is the Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, a lecturer at Duke University, and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Among his greatest contributions to ecological theory is the theory of island biogeography, which he developed in collaboration with the mathematical ecologist Robert MacArthur, which was the foundation of the development of conservation area design, as well as the unified neutral theory of biodiversity of Stephen Hubbell. Wilson has been called "the father of sociobiology" and "the father of biodiversity", for his environmental advocacy, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert. Wilson, is an American biologist, theorist, naturalist and author. BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology (2010)Ī Monographic Revision of the Ant Genus Lasius (1955)Įdward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929), usually cited as E.Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science (1994).
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement (1984).
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