- 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 The Age of Humans. 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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