E.O. Wilson, “Ant Man”
E. O. Wilson reflects on insect societies, human society, and the importance of biodiversity.
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HBS’S LAURA ALFARO NAMED YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER The World Economic Forum (WEF) has selected Associate Professor of Business Administration Laura Alfaro as a Young Global Leader 2008. This honor is...
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Wilson receives NCSE’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE). The award, “For a Distinguished Career as an...
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Wilson, Watson reflect on past trials, future directions
If they could do it all over again, two of the 20th century’s greatest biologists would study the brain and the vast, unknown world of prokaryotes — the bacteria that are all around us today and that...
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E.O. Wilson awarded highest external honor by U.Va.
E.O. Wilson, the Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus at Harvard, has been awarded the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture, the highest external honor given by the University of...
View ArticleEarthwatch Institute moves world headquarters to Harvard property in Allston
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Earthwatch Institute, a leading international nonprofit environmental organization, will move its world headquarters to the Allston neighborhood of Boston this spring, Harvard...
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In praise of unwanted termites
The majestic animals most closely associated with the African savanna — fierce lions, massive elephants, towering giraffes — may be relatively minor players when it comes to shaping the ecosystem. The...
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Parting words
We usually think of commencement as college’s end, but the word actually means the beginning, since everyday life is what follows. In this video, seven renowned Harvard instructors give their takeaway...
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The ties that bind
Scientists at Harvard University have sketched a new map of the “evolutionary labyrinth” that species must traverse to reach “eusociality,” the rare but spectacularly successful social structure in...
View ArticleE.O. Wilson to lecture, co-host conservation benefit dinner
E.O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus, will host a lecture and benefit dinner with biologist Daniel H. Janzen, from the University of Pennsylvania, on Oct. 1. The event, titled...
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In search of Captain Nemo
I have always loved stories. Sometimes, I find stories that my life absorbs. The ancient Sanskrit epic “Mahabharata,” detailing the deeds of valorous heroes and austere sages, is one such tale. Ayn...
View ArticleE.O. Wilson to receive Thoreau Prize
PEN New England will present this year’s Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing on Feb. 8 to author Edward O. Wilson in recognition of his exceptional talents. Wilson is...
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Survival of the selfless
In a talk at the Geological Lecture Hall on Thursday, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson outlined new thinking on how human social behavior evolved, saying that it was competition among groups of humans —...
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Paul Tillich at Harvard
When he started teaching at Harvard in 1955, Paul Tillich (1886-1965) was one of the world’s foremost theologians. His early romantic views of the world had been tempered in the cauldron of World War...
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E.O. Wilson wins Cosmos Prize
E.O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus, has been awarded the 20th annual International Cosmos Prize by Japan’s Expo ’90 Foundation. The prize, worth 40 million Japanese yen ($511,444),...
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Rethinking the roots of altruism
For decades, researchers working to understand how altruistic behavior evolved have relied on a concept known as inclusive fitness, which holds that organisms receive an evolutionary benefit — and are...
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Collectively peculiar
In a quiet hallway outside the Harvard University Archives, it is jarring to encounter a giant black ant. Well, OK: a picture of a giant black ant — glistening head, alitrunk, petiole, gaster. In the...
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Study of lizards shows trade as a force in biodiversity
It may be a cliché to say it, but the world is getting smaller. For those able to afford a ticket, there is virtually no corner of the world that can’t be reached in a matter of days. And humans...
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E.O. Wilson urges a melding of humanities, sciences
Like Raymond Carver’s blind man in “Cathedral,” the entomologist Edward O. Wilson inspires readers to regard the world through an entirely uncommon lens, never more so than in his latest book, “The...
View ArticleEmbrace logic to improve both education and society
This is part of a series called Focal Point, in which we ask a range of Harvard faculty members to answer the same question. Focal Point Mona Weissmark Question: If you were to write a letter to your...
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A trailblazing biologist — and beloved mentor and friend
Naomi Pierce was a graduate student at Harvard in the late 1970s studying a species of butterfly at a lab in the Rocky Mountains. Her work was moving along, and everything was essentially fine. But...
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The quote machine
The pages of the Gazette are rich with research, history, analysis, debate — and voices. Over the years, we’ve heard from scholars, researchers, scientists, artists, and authors, of course, but also...
View ArticleEdward Osborne Wilson, 92
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 2, 2023, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Edward Osborne Wilson was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty....
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