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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
E. O. Wilson
Born: June 10, 1929
Died: December 26, 2021 (aged 92)
Bio: Edward Osborne Wilson was an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. His biological specialty was myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the world's leading expert.
Known for:
- The Social Conquest of Earth (2012)
- The Meaning of Human Existence (2014)
- Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)
- Consilience (1998)
- The Future of Life
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