Edward Osborne Wilson () var ein USA-amerikansk biolog oppvaksen i Alabama og Washington D.C., som hovudsakleg er kjend som grunnleggjar av sosiobiologien. Han har òg vore særs viktig i forskinga på maur, i tillegg til å vera ein ivrig talsmann for bevaring av det biologiske mangfaldet.
Hovudverk , med William Brown Jr.; æra i 1986 som ein Science Citation Classic, dvs. ein av dei mest siterte vitskaplege artiklane nokon gong. The Theory of Island Biogeography, 1967, Princeton University Press (2001 reprint), , med Robert H. MacArthur The Insect Societies, 1971, Harvard University Press, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis 1975, Harvard University Press, (Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 2000 ) On Human Nature, 1979, Harvard University Press, , vann Pulitzerprisen 1979 for «General Nonfiction». Genes, Mind and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process, 1981, Harvard University Press, Promethean Fire: Reflections on the Origin of Mind, 1983, Harvard University Press, Biophilia, 1984, Harvard University Press, Success and Dominance in Ecosystems: The Case of the Social Insects, 1990, Inter-Research, The Ants, 1990, Harvard University Press, , vann Pulitzerprisen 1991, med Bert Hölldobler The Diversity of Life, 1992, Harvard University Press, , The Diversity of Life: Special Edition, The Biophilia Hypothesis, 1993, Shearwater Books, , med Stephen R. Kellert Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration, 1994, Harvard University Press, , med Bert Hölldobler Naturalist, 1994, Shearwater Books, In Search of Nature, 1996, Shearwater Books, , med Laura Simonds Southworth Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, 1998, Knopf, The Future of Life, 2002, Knopf, Pheidole in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus, 2003, Harvard University Press, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, September 2006, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Nature Revealed: Selected Writings 1949–2006, The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, 2009, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. , med Bert Hölldobler Anthill: A Novel, April 2010, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Kingdom of Ants: Jose Celestino Mutis and the Dawn of Natural History in the New World, 2010, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, med José María Gómez Durán The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct, 2011, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. , med Bert Hölldobler The Social Conquest of Earth, 2012, Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, Letters to a Young Scientist, 2014, Liveright, A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park, 2014, Simon & Schuster, The Meaning of Human Existence, 2014, Liveright, Half-Earth, 2016, Liveright, The Origins of Creativity, 2017, Liveright, Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies, 2019, Liveright; Tales from the Ant World, 2020, Liveright, Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation November 10, 2020, Island Press;
Som redaktør From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books, red. og forord av Edward O. Wilson (2005, W. W. Norton)
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