E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson, usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalistand author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the world's leading expert...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth10 June 1929
CountryUnited States of America
differences half world
If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.
appreciate people world
The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.
taken world levels
We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.
animal world ants
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
world ants violence
Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.
years storm world
This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms-folded them into its genes-and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.
prayer religion world
No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.
world ants pheromones
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
america world cost
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
player cycling world
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
predator ants world
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
world hunters poet
No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet,
people lasts world
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
dream world biosphere
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.