E.O. Wilson Trivia Questions

E.O. Wilson's Harvard office was indeed famously cluttered with ant specimens, books, and papers, a legendary jumble often mentioned in profiles.

Wilson was an ant specialist from age 13, earning the nickname 'the ant man'—he never studied butterflies professionally.

In his 1998 book 'Consilience', he argued that all branches of knowledge could be unified under scientific principles.

He co-wrote 'The Ants' with Bert Hölldobler, winning the Pulitzer for General Nonfiction in 1991.

The term was coined by Walter G. Rosen in 1985. E.O. Wilson helped popularize it with his 1988 book 'Biodiversity', but he did not coin it.

E.O. Wilson, a leading myrmecologist, described over 400 ant species throughout his career—often cited as approximately 450—making the statement correct.

Wilson introduced the biophilia hypothesis in his 1984 book 'Biophilia', arguing that humans have an evolved tendency to connect with nature.

He controversially championed multilevel selection, including group selection, in his later work like 'The Social Conquest of Earth'.