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	Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
		Wilson calls this common groundwork of explanation that crosses all the great branches of learning "consilience," and he argues that we can indeed explain everything in the world through an understanding of a handful of natural laws.
		In a book that is truly a magnum opus, Wilson is concerned with an even bigger project, the unification of all knowledge by the means of science, so that the explanations of differing kinds of phenomena are seen to be connected and consistent with one another--that is, to be consilient.
		Wilson and others have defended and refined sociobiology over the years to such a point that it is now a dictionary word, and a new generation of so-called evolutionary psychologists accept it as given.
	www.2think.org /hii/wilson.shtml (1793 words)

	Edward O. Wilson Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
		O. Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University, is one of the most highly respected scientists in the world today.
		Wilson's book The Diversity of Life, which brought together knowledge of the magnitude of biodiversity and the threats to it, had a major public impact.
		Wilson has received 75 awards in international recognition for his contributions to science and humanity, including the U.S. National Medal of Science, Japan's International Prize for Biology, the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Germany's Terrestrial Ecology Prize, and the Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society.
	www.thelavinagency.com /college/edwardowilson.html (408 words)

	CNN/TIME - America's Best
		Wilson's prediction that 30 percent to 50 percent of all species would be extinct by the middle of the 21st century was meant to provokeand it did.
		To Wilson, what is required is a new convergence of thought and ethics comparable to the Age of Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Now, at 72, E.O. Wilson is a senior doyen of science and, by his own admission, moving irresistibly into what he calls "the literary realm." It's not a bad place for him to be.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/science.medicine/pro.eowilson.html (766 words)

	Edward O. Wilson - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wilson is a proponent of the gene as the unit of natural selection (often called gene selection or selfish gene theory) and was a pioneer of Sociobiology, with his 1975 book of the same name.
		When the book was first released Sociobiology was confused with social darwinism and Wilson and his colleagues were accused of racism and sexism and dismissed by many non-scientists as using science to push their right-wing agenda, despite having openly left-of-centre politics.
		Wilson is also an expert on mass extinction, and fights for the conservation of ecosystems.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php?title=Edward_O._Wilson&printable=yes (186 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Edward O. Wilson
		Internationally acclaimed entomologist, biologist, and author, Edward O. Wilson is considered one of the world’s greatest living scientists.
		He is a leading voice for the preservation of biodiversity and the founder of a field of study relating social behavior to genetic advantage.
		Edward Osborne Wilson was born on June 10, 1929 in Birmingham, Alabama.
	www.lectures.org /wilson.html (928 words)

	Biodiversity at the Crossroads
		Wilson speaks out on the need for preserving biodiversity and science and technology's role in this endeavor.
		Interviewed in November 1999 by ESandT, Wilson urges formation of a new environmental ethic, one that looks beyond mere consumption and economic security to real quality-of-life issues, in which preservation of biodiversity is given top-level priority.
		A scientist extraordinaire, Wilson is an accomplished biologist, naturalist, environmentalist, ecologist, entomologist, and zoologist.
	pubs.acs.org /hotartcl/est/00/mar/christen.html (3938 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Wilson has added his weight to Conservation International, a hard-hitting, wealthy and relatively young organisation whose board includes Intel's co-founder Gordon Moore, Michael Eisner, chairman of Disney, and the actor Harrison Ford, all of whom, Wilson says, are very knowledgeable.
		Wilson is fascinated by early memories, not trusting them but still enthralled at the mythologies we build around ourselves; he cannot resist the point where his genetic inheritance meets his own experience as an individual - which includes his childhood religious phase - a point which his research has focused on.
		Wilson's particular hero was Ernst Mayr, the architect of neo-Darwinism and later a colleague at Harvard.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4137503,00.html (3834 words)

	Alabama Academy of Honor: Edward Osborne Wilson
		Wilson is only one of two persons to have received both our country's highest award in science, the National Medal of Science, and its premier literary award, the Pulitzer Prize in literature, the latter won twice.
		Edward Osborne Wilson's ventures in the literary field have set him apart as a man of letters, as well as a scientist of unmatched accomplishments.
		Wilson's books, On Human Nature in 1979, The Ants in 1990, and his most recent works, The Diversity of Life, Naturalist, and The Future of Life are compelling evidence that his unceasing efforts of research on animals and their habits have stimulated the thoughts and labors of people around the world.
	www.archives.state.al.us /famous/academy/e_wilson.html (343 words)

	NPQ
		Edward O. Wilson: For 51 percent of Americans, the human species was created by a supreme force thousands of years ago.
		Wilson: The only argumentation of those who defend the concept of intelligent design is that science cannot explain all the details of evolution and of natural phenomena.
		Wilson: A calculation made in 1997 by biologists and economists showed that species of all ecosystems contributed with $30 trillion in “services,” such as water retention, soil regeneration and cleaning of the atmosphere.
	www.digitalnpq.org /articles/global/84/05-30-2006/edward_o._wilson (1843 words)

	Edge: A UNITED BIOLOGY
		Wilson has also called attention to the deep human need to be surrounded by other living things and has made it a key argument for preserving the diversity of life in the face of today's massive human-caused extinctions.
		And on top of all this, Wilson's most specialized research activity—the study of ants—has made the subject so familiar to the public that two full-length animated movies have relied on ant facts for their humor.
		EDWARD O.WILSON is Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/wilson03/wilson_index.html (647 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Edward O. Wilson
		Wilson and the biology of his homestate of Alabama.
		Edward O. Wilson is the author of two Pulitzer Prize–winning books, On Human Nature (1978) and The Ants (1990, with Bert Hölldobler), as well as many other groundbreaking works, including Consilience, Naturalist, and Sociobiology.
		In this dazzlingly intelligent and ultimately hopeful book, Wilson describes what treasures of the natural world we are about to lose forever—in many cases animals, insects, and plants we have only just discovered, and whose potential to nourish us, protect us, and cure our illnesses is immeasurable—and what we can do to save them.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/wilson (448 words)

	Salon People \| Living in shimmering disequilibrium
		Edward O. Wilson, born in 1929, began his career as a scientist and while still young became a tenured professor at Harvard specializing in myrmecology, the study of ants and their social systems.
		But it is Wilson's willingness to venture into public policy and to apply the insights of science to a wide variety of human affairs that has brought him the most public attention.
		Wilson is also unusual among scientists for his emphasis on the importance of the spiritual impulse, both as an evolutionary advantage central to human nature and as a key to hope for the future.
	www.salon.com /people/feature/2000/04/22/eowilson/index.html (916 words)

	The Paula Gordon Show
		Dr. Wilson says the explosion of the human population promises 8 billion people living on earth within 40 years (as compared to 2 billion in 1900.) It's a vast bottleneck coinciding with a documented worldwide decline in arable land and water.
		Professor Edward O. Wilson describes the accelerated pace at which human society is causing a host of changes on the earth to Paula Gordon and Bill Russell.
		Dr. Wilson, a life-long Harvard professor, criticizes the failure of today's the colleges and universities adequately to prepare our young people to be leaders, in the face of monumental challenges we will face in the next 40 years.
	www.paulagordon.com /shows/wilson (1466 words)

	Amazon.ca: Biophilia: Books: Edward O. Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Edward Wilson is a two time pulitzer prize winner, and a great writer at that.
		Wilson alludes to a "conservation ethic" throughout the first half of the book of which he makes his readers aware in later chapters of Biophilia.
		Biophilia written by Edward O. Wilson is a book about the conserative ethic and moral reasoning, bringing a new perspective on mans place within the richness of species diversity.
	www.amazon.ca /Biophilia-Edward-O-Wilson/dp/0674074424 (1171 words)

	Amazon.ca: Consilience: the Unity of Knowledge: Books: Edward O. Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The biologist Edward O. Wilson is a rare scientist: having over a long career made signal contributions to population genetics, evolutionary biology, entomology, and ethology, he has also steeped himself in philosophy, the humanities, and the social sciences.
		Wilson's book is labeled "science in the grand visionary tradition of Newton, Einstein, and Feynman." Although the author quickly evangelizes us with a conveniently Wilsonian Einstein ("Ionian to the core"), we would do well to consider that actual tradition of Newton, Einstein, and Feynman.
		Wilson is a sometimes venerated academian "captured by the dream of unified learning." In 'Consilience', he unfortunately parrots some pompous foolishness.
	www.amazon.ca /Consilience-Knowledge-Edward-O-Wilson/dp/0679450777 (2744 words)

	Wilson, Edward O
		Wilson, Edward O. American entomologist, sociobiologist, and ecologist Edward Osborne Wilson is one of this century's most influential, yet controversial scientists.
		In his 1975 book entitled Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Wilson observed behaviour in insects which suggested that one individual insect is inclined to help its colony, even at possible cost to itself; that is to say the welfare of the entire colony was far more important than that of the individual.
		It cannot be disputed that Edward O. Wilson's work as an entomologist, ecologist, and sociobiologist has been influential on the world of science, even to this day.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/W/WilsonE/1.html (459 words)

	Edward O. Wilson Lecturing
		Wilson, the Pelligrino University Research Professor at Harvard University, has made major contributions to numerous areas of scientific inquiry, including entomology, the understanding of ecosystems, the importance of biodiversity, and the effect of evolution and natural selection on human nature.
		In his newest book, Wilson argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls "consilience"--proof that everything in our world is organized by a small number of fundamental natural laws.
		Wilson's visit to Oberlin is sponsored by the Friends of the Library, the Mead-Swing Lectureship, the President's Office, and the Biology Department.
	www.oberlin.edu /newserv/stories/eowilson.html (293 words)

	Edward O Wilson - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Edward O Wilson - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wilson, Edward Osborne (scientist), born in 1929, American evolutionary biologist, best known for his work tracing the effect of natural selection...
		In recent decades, another branch of evolutionary theory has appeared, as researchers have explored the possibility that not only physical traits,...
	encarta.msn.com /Edward_O_Wilson.html (122 words)

	Arousing Biophilia
		The title of the colloquium, which was sponsored by the Myrin Institute and the college, was taken from an essay by Edward C. Wolf, "Arousing Biophilia" (Orion, Summer 1989), in which he wrote: "To arouse biophilia, science is not enough.
		EOW: I think that the expression that might fit much of the kind of writing we are talking about here is the Homeric narrative.
		EOW: That's because we are facing an entrenched power structure motivated by what I call "molecular supremacy." (laughter) We need to overcome this apartheid (laughter) and open participation and democracy to systematics--for the good of the world.
	arts.envirolink.org /interviews_and_conversations/EOWilson.html (4486 words)

	Amazon.com: The Future of Life: Books: Edward O. Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wilson has penned an eloquent plea for the need for a global land ethic and offers the strategies necessary to ensure life on earth based on foresight, moral courage, and the best tools that science and technology can provide.
		Wilson argues that the "great dilemma of environmental reasoning" stems from the conflict between environmentalism and economics, between long-term and short-term values.
		Wilson's book, in combination with those by Brian Czech and L. Stromberg, is in my view a capstone endeavor that moves the environment to the forefront of any intelligent person's agenda.
	www.amazon.com /Future-Life-Edward-O-Wilson/dp/0679450785 (2246 words)

	No. 985: Edward O. Wilson
		Wilson became the world's leading student of ants.
		Wilson has had an uncanny talent for taxonomy -- for classifying species.
		Gould is critical of sociobiology, and of Wilson as its apostle, in Chapters 2 (Cardboard Darwinism) and 7 (Genes on the Brain.)
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi985.htm (551 words)

	Powell's Books - by Edward O. Wilson
		Like Carson, Wilson passionately concerned about the state of the world, draws on his own personal experiences and expertise as an entomologist, and prophesies that half the species of plants and animals on Earth could either have gone or atleast are fated for early extinction by the end of our present century.
		Rather, Wilson, a leading secular humanist, draws upon his own rich background as a boy in Alabama who took the waters, and seeks not to condemn this new generations of Christians but to address them on their own terms.
		Never a pessimist, Wilson avers that there are solutions that may yet save the planet, and believes that the vision that he presents in The Creation is one that both scientists and pastors can accept, and work on together in spite of their fundamental ideological differences.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0393062171-0 (848 words)

	Edward O. Wilson Resources at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		Edward O. Wilson Resources at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to the loss of not only "a vast intellectual legacy born of intimacy" with nature, but also our very sanity.
		A remarkably productive and influential scientist, Wilson is also a fine writer, and his survey of biodiversity makes for welcome and instructive reading.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~ecologic/html/wilson.htm (324 words)

	Edward O. Wilson - Celebrity Atheist List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Wilson's autobiography, Naturalist (1994, Warner Books) he says, "Religion had to be explained as a material process, from the bottom up, atoms to genes to the human spirit.
		Wilson has been 'demoted' to the ambiguous section due to a statement of his spotted by a reader of his Wilson's latest book Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge.
		In an interview with Salon from April 2000 E.O. Wilson calls himself a secular humanist: "And humanists -- I'll identify myself as a secular humanist -- recognize that they do not have 2,500 years of the evolution of ritual and mythology into which they can invest their spiritual energies.
	www.celebatheists.com /index.php?title=Edward_O._Wilson (284 words)

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