E. O. Wilson

E. O. Wilson is a TED speaker who has written 1 quality-verified book, paired here with their talks.

One of the world's most distinguished scientists, E.O. Wilson was a professor and honorary curator in entomology at Harvard. In 1975, he published Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, a work that described social behavior, from ants to humans. Drawing from his deep knowledge of the Earth's "little creatures" and his sense that their contribution to the planet's ecology is underappreciated, he produced what may be his most important book, The Diversity of Life. In it he describes how an intricately interconnected natural system is threatened by man's encroachment, in a crisis he called the "sixth extinction" (the fifth one wiped out the dinosaurs). And in The Creation, he put the differences of science- and faith-based explanations aside "to protect Earth's vanishing natural habitats and species ...; in other words, the Creation, however we believe it came into existence."