This Day in History: 1929-06-10

E.O. Wilson, biologist and author, is born this day in 1929. WIlson is an entomologist whose studies of insect behavior pioneered the field of sociobiology. He is also most notably the author of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge which argued for a unified view of evolution, genetics, social behavior and environmental protection. He was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Ants, co-authored with Bert Hölldobler. And he was awarded the Crafoord prize in 1990, the equivalent of the Nobel prize in the field of ecology.