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I shall strenuously endeavor to be modern, I can only beg you, if I fail to come within hailing distance of the advance guard of present-day zoologists, to remember that the range of adaptability in all organisms, even zoologists, is very limited.

William Morton Wheeler

An entomologist no less interested in his fellow men than in the insects may with increasing years of observation find increasing resemblance between the two — some insects seeming almost human and some humans behaving very much like insects.

William Morton Wheeler

Since no two events are identical, every atom, molecule, organism, personality, and society is an emergent and, at least to some extent, a novelty.

William Morton Wheeler

William Morton Wheeler

William Morton Wheeler

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Born: March 19, 1865

Died: April 19, 1937 (aged 72)

Bio: William Morton Wheeler was an American entomologist, myrmecologist and Harvard professor.

Known for:

The Fungus-growing Ants of North America (1907)
Mosaics and Other Anomalies Among Ants (1937)

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