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Mona Weissmark

Advice to students: Learn to think scientifically

Mona Sue Weissmark says embracing logic and standards of evidence can bolster American education and our riven society

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DateFebruary 18, 2020February 18, 2020

In his latest book, entomologist E.O. Wilson urges the next generation of great minds to evolve and explore the symmetry between the natural sciences and the humanities.

A melding of humanities, sciences

E.O. Wilson, in his latest book, thinks the combination is overdue

Arts|

DateMarch 6, 2018March 6, 2018

Anolis sagrei, the brown anole, is native to Cuba, the Bahamas, and other islands in the northern Caribbean and has been widely introduced throughout the Caribbean and the world.

Study of lizards shows trade as a force in biodiversity

Research builds on theory advanced by E.O. Wilson

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DateOctober 3, 2014April 30, 2019

Sharyn Nolan (right) and Juliana Kuipers lead visitors through “Code Books to 'Love Story': Staff Selections from the Harvard University Archives’ Collections.” This inaugural staff exhibit, eccentric and surprising, is up through May 15.

Collectively peculiar

Ants, spikes, ‘squirrel food’ in staff-stocked Archives exhibit

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DateMarch 20, 2014May 17, 2019

Harvard Professor Martin Nowak (left) and Benjamin Allen, an assistant professor at Emmanuel College, along with Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus E.O. Wilson, have discovered that the theory of inclusive fitness is mathematically flawed.

Rethinking the roots of altruism

Research finds major flaws in standard approach

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DateJanuary 10, 2014March 29, 2019

“In a special way it is the culmination of a long life and career that have led me to the same purpose of this prize: the harmonious coexistence of humanity and the natural world,” said E.O. Wilson, after being named the recipient of the 20th annual International Cosmos Prize by Japan’s Expo ’90 Foundation.

E.O. Wilson wins Cosmos Prize

Recognized for his work on environmentalism, biodiversity

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DateJuly 31, 2012June 26, 2019

Former University Marshal Richard M. Hunt (above) said Tillich’s title of “University Professor” was shared by only four others at the time, and it conferred on him the freedom to teach undergraduates — something Tillich had never done before — as well as lecture widely to students in law, medicine, divinity, public health, art, and education.

Paul Tillich at Harvard

Speakers recall theologian as a student of ‘ultimate concerns’

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DateMay 7, 2012March 5, 2019

Group loyalty, renowned Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson (right) said, is at the root of both some of our finest and darkest impulses. Wilson discussed the concept of eusociality and his most recent book, "The Social Conquest of Earth," at a recent Harvard Museum of Natural History talk whose attendees included David Ellis (left), interim director of the museum.

Survival of the selfless

E.O. Wilson examines the role of group competition in evolution

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DateApril 13, 2012June 18, 2019

E.O. Wilson to receive Thoreau Prize

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DateJanuary 26, 2011April 18, 2019

"I applied to Harvard because it was the one institution that harbored the most people who had influenced my thought — an intellectually diverse list that included Joseph Schumpeter, W.E.B. Du Bois, Tim O’Reilly, E.O. Wilson, Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Oppenheimer, William James, and Bill Gates, among others. The moment I read the acceptance email, I felt a wave of excitement that my story, in a small but meaningful way, touched each of theirs."

In search of Captain Nemo

A senior decides to chart his own course, like his literary idol

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DateDecember 2, 2010April 2, 2019

E.O. Wilson to lecture, co-host conservation benefit dinner

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DateSeptember 16, 2010July 25, 2019

Mathematical biologists Martin A. Nowak (from left) and Corina E. Tarnita and evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson presented a new theory on the evolution of eusociality, the rare but spectacularly successful social structure in which individuals of the world’s most dominant species cooperate to raise offspring.

The ties that bind

Paths by which creatures put needs of group ahead of their own

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DateAugust 25, 2010June 14, 2019

Parting words

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DateMay 27, 2010February 6, 2018

“It’s not always the charismatic predators — animals like lions and leopards — that exert the greatest control on populations,” said Robert M. Pringle, a research fellow at Harvard University.

In praise of unwanted termites

Though often disdained, its African colonies help savanna ecosystems to thrive

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DateMay 27, 2010July 24, 2019

Earthwatch Institute moves world headquarters to Harvard property in Allston

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DateMarch 24, 2010

E.O. Wilson awarded highest external honor by U.Va.

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DateMarch 4, 2010May 21, 2019

Staff Photo Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office

Wilson, Watson reflect on past trials, future directions

Enemies, ambition drove groundbreaking careers

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DateSeptember 10, 2009

Harvard Professor Edward O. Wilson is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Council for Science and the Environment.

Wilson receives NCSE’s Lifetime Achievement Award

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DateFebruary 5, 2009

Newsmakers

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DateApril 10, 2008

E.O. Wilson, “Ant Man”

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DateApril 23, 2005February 1, 2018