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Born June 10, 1929, in Birmingham, Alabama, U.SEdward O. Wilson is the world's leading expert on ants, and sociobiology, which explores the genetic basis of social behavior and founder of the science of evolutionary psychology, and a renowned authority on sociobiology.
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Lynn Margulis was born March 15, 1938 to Leone and Morris Alexander in Chicago, Illinois.
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Wilson recieved his B.S., in 1949 and M.S., in 1950.
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Edward Wilson Graduated Decatur Senior High School, Decatur, Alabama.
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He earned his Ph.D. in Biology in 1955.
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While studying the ant genus Lasius with W.L. Brown, Edward Wilson created the idea of Character Displacement - The result of competition in which two species living in the same area have evolved differences in characteristics that minimize competition and hybridization between them.
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While at Harvard Wilson made the discovery that ants communicate primarily through the transmission of chemical substances known as pheromones.
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Edward Wilson was a member of Harvard’s biology and zoology faculties from 1956 to 1976
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Married Carl Sagan in 1957 and divorced in 1965, with whom she had two children; one, Dorion, would become her frequent collaborator.
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Where she graduated at the age of 20 yrs old, earning her Bachelor degree.
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Margulis earned a master’s degree in zoology and genetics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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Lynn earned a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1965
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Acceptance of the serial endosymbiosis theory.
Theory put forward by Lynn Margulis. -
She joined the biology department of Boston University in 1966 and taught there until 1988
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Robert H. MacArthur & Edward O. Wilson developed a general theory to explain the facts of island biogeography.
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In 1971 he published The Insect Societies. The book provided information of the classification, ecology, population dynamics, and social behaviour of thousands of species. This book was an importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology.
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Sociobiology attempts to understand and explain animal (including human) social behaviour with natural selection and other biological processes (eg. evolution) in mind.
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Edward Wilson still Harvard was Frank B. Baird Professor of Science.
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Edward Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for On Human Nature.
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n this book Wilson wrote about the application of sociobiology to human aggression, sexuality, and ethics. It explains how different characteristics of humans and society can be explained from evolution.
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Edward Wilson introduced the first general theory of gene-culture coevolution.
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Her 1982 book Five Kingdoms, written with American biologist Karlene V. Schwartz, articulates a five-kingdom system of classifying life on Earth—animals, plants, bacteria (prokaryotes), fungi, and protoctists. The protist kingdom, which comprises most unicellular organisms (and multicellular algae) in other systems, is rejected as too general. Many of the organisms usually categorized as protists are placed in one of the other four kingdoms; protoctists make up the remaining organisms,
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Charles J. Lumsden and Edward Wilson asked why, out of the millions of species that have emerged and gone extinct, human beings alone took the last, abrupt journey to high intelligence and advanced culture.
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This year she began to be a member here in the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
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Wilson argues that our natural attraction for life–biophilia–is the core of our humanity and binds us to all other living things.
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In 1990 Edward Wilson was awarded the Crafoord Prize from Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which is the highest award given in ecological science. He shared this award with U.S. biologist Paul Ehrl.
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At Harvard Edward Wilson become Mellon Professor of the Sciences.
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Edward Wilson was awarded his second Pulitzer prize for the book he wrote called The Ants.
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Wilson tried to explain how the living species on Earth became diverse and examined the massive species extinctions caused by human actions in the 20th century.
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Having authored dozens of books and scientific papers, Margulis was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1999. Awards: Darwin–Wallace Medal, William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences
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She received the National Medal of Science from the hand of President Bill Clinton.
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She received the Darwin-Wallace Medal for her work.
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Lynn began to be a professor here in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She retained that title when her affiliation at the university changed to the department of biology in 1993 and then to the department of geosciences in 1997.
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Lynn Margulis, a biologist whose work on the origin of cells helped transform the study of evolution, died on Tuesday at her home in Amherst, Mass. She was 73. She died five days after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke.
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Lynn Margulis gave its support for a new investigation of the events of this day in 2001.
