Edward Osborne "E. O." Wilson FMLS[1] (born June 10, 1929) is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity, island biogeography), theorist (consilience, biophilia), naturalist (conservationist) and author. His biological specialty ismyrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the world's leading expert.[2][3]
Wilson is known for his scientific career, his role as "the father of sociobiology" and "the father of biodiversity",[4] his environmental advocacy, and his secular-humanist anddeist ideas pertaining to religious and ethical matters.[5] Among his greatest contributions to ecological theory is the theory of island biogeography, which he developed in collaboration with the mathematical ecologist Robert MacArthur, and which is seen as the foundation of the development of conservation area design, as well as the unified neutral theory of biodiversity of Stephen Hubbell.
Wilson is (2014) the Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, a lecturer at Duke University,[6] and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.[7][8] He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and a New York Times bestseller for The Social Conquest of Earth,[9] Letters to a Young Scientist,[9] and The Meaning of Human Existence.
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[hide]主な著書[編集]
- The Theory of Island Biogeography, 1967, Princeton University Press (2001 reprint), ISBN 0-691-08836-5, with Robert H. MacArthur
- The Insect Societies, 1971, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-45490-1
- 『社会生物学』 1983,1999 新思索社 坂上昭一他訳 Sociobiology: The New Synthesis 1975, Harvard University Press, (Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 2000 ISBN 0-674-00089-7) 《社會生物學：新綜合理論 1 社會演化的原動力》台北：左岸文化 ，2012 薛絢
- Genes, Mind and Culture: The coevolutionary process, 1981, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-34475-8
- 『精神の起源について』 1990 思索社 松本 亮三 Promethean fire: reflections on the origin of mind, 1983, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-71445-8
- Biophilia, 1984, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-07441-6
- Success and Dominance in Ecosystems: The Case of the Social Insects, 1990, Inter-Research, ISSN 0932-2205
- The Ants, 1990, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-04075-9, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, with Bert Hölldobler
- 『生命の多様性 上・下』 2004 岩波書店 大貫昌子、 牧野俊一訳 The Diversity of Life, 1992, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-21298-3,The Diversity of Life: Special Edition, ISBN 0-674-21299-1 譯《繽紛的生命：造訪基因庫的燦爛國度》金恆鑣譯，台北：天下文化，1997
- 『バイオフィリア－人間と生物の絆』 1994 平凡社 狩野秀之 Biophilia|The Biophilia Hypothesis, 1993, Shearwater Books, ISBN 1-55963-148-1, with Stephen R. Kellert
- 『蟻の自然史』 1997 朝日新聞社 辻和希、松本忠夫訳 Journey to the Ants|Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration, 1994, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-48525-4, with Bert Hölldobler
- 『ナチュラリスト』 1996 法政大学出版局 荒木正純 Naturalist, 1994, Shearwater Books, ISBN 1-55963-288-7 《大自然的獵人：博物學家威爾森》楊玉齡譯，台北：天下文化，1997
- 『生き物たちの神秘生活』 1999 徳間書店 広野喜幸訳 In Search of Nature, 1996, Shearwater Books, ISBN 1-55963-215-1, with Laura Simonds Southworth
- 『知の挑戦』 2002 角川書店 山下篤子 Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, 1998, Knopf, ISBN 0-679-45077-7《》
- 『生命の未来』 2003 角川書店 山下篤子 The Future of Life, 2002, Knopf, ISBN 0-679-45078-5《生物圈的未來》楊玉齡譯，台北：天下文化，2004
- Pheidole in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus, 2003, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-00293-8
- 『人間の本性について』 1997 筑摩書房 岸由二On Human Nature, 1979/2004, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-01638-6
- From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books. 2005, W. W. Norton.
- 『創造－生物多様性を守るためのアピール』 2010 紀伊國屋書店 岸由二 訳 The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, September 2006, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0393062175
- Nature Revealed: Selected Writings 1949-2006, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 0-8018-8329-6
- On Human Nature, 1979, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-01638-6, winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.愛德華‧威爾森/著《論人性》 鄭清榮譯 ， 時報出版 ，2002
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Naturalist By "E. O." Wilson 回憶錄 (66歲，2015年86歲)《大自然的獵人：博物學家威爾森》----1997年，天下文化出版社的極盛年，初刷7000本，482頁，定價才380元。喜歡擅改原書名，也是其作風。金恆鑣先生的導讀《獨具慧眼的田野生物學家 》很可一讀。