Saturday, February 12, 10 AM PST Darwin Day, Heroes of Evolution: E. O. Wilson By Dr. Stephen L. Gasior https://www.sciencecircle.org/event/darwin-day-heroes-e-o-wilson/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/science/eo-wilson-dead.html Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00078-7 E.O. Wilson, Renowned Harvard Biologist Known as ‘Darwin’s Natural Heir,’ Dies at 92 Harvard Crimson https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/12/31/edward-wilson-obit/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-O-Wilson "Character Displacement" W. L. Brown, Jr. and E. O. Wilson Systematic Zoology Vol. 5, No. 2 (Jun., 1956), pp. 49-64 (16 pages) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_displacement Speaking Pheromone How science is done, in the lab of E.O. Wilson by RICHARD RHODES NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/11/feature-speaking-pheomone Wilson, Edward O., and Mario Pavan. "Glandular sources and specificity of some chemical releasers of social behavior in dolichoderine ants." Psyche 66.4 (1959): 70-76. [Further exploration] Confusing ants by removing the scent trail https://youtu.be/vsWsQLJAbMk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Island_Biogeography [for further exploration] What is Island Biogeography Theory? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XP5tS-I0Jc Simberloff, Daniel. "Experimental zoogeography of islands: effects of island size." Ecology 57.4 (1976): 629-648. https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Caste_Terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiology:_The_New_Synthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Human_Nature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilia_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Conquest_of_Earth Nowak, M., Tarnita, C. & Wilson, E. The evolution of eusociality. Nature 466, 1057–1062 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09205 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09205 https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/books/review/the-social-conquest-of-earth-by-edward-o-wilson.html https://www.britannica.com/science/evolutionary-psychology https://eowilsonfoundation.org/the-diversity-of-life/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Earth https://www.half-earthproject.org/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2755681/ [for further exploration] The Insane Biology of: Ant Colonies https://youtu.be/VLBDVXLiWxQ The Sinister and Spectacular Societies of Ants | Advanced Insect Social Structures https://youtu.be/p47ysRWKqKw