E.O. Wilson, Known as ‘Father of Biodiversity,’ passes away – E.O. Wilson has passed away at the age of 92. He was the former Harvard University biologist and Pulitzer Prize winner whose study of ants and humans behaviour made him one of the world’s most influential scientists. To protect Earth earned him the nickname “Darwin’s natural heir”.
He was the author of hundreds of scientific papers and more than 30 books, two of which won him Pulitzer Prizes for nonfiction: 1978’s On Human Nature, and The Ants in 1990. He was also known “father of biodiversity”, as Wilson was also known, attempted to unify the natural sciences with the humanities and said there was still time to reverse a “sixth extinction” of most species on the planet if environmental degradation was halted.
