--- title: "Who was Edward O Wilson, who has been in news recently?" description: "Who was Edward O Wilson, who has been in news recently?" author: "Lily Chitlangiya" published: 2022-02-21 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95966/who-was-edward-o-wilson-who-has-been-in-news-recently category: "current affair" tags: ["current affair"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Who was Edward O Wilson, who has been in news recently? Who was Edward O Wilson, who has been in [news recently](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97899/mount-sinabung-that-has-been-in-news-recently-is-located-in-which-country)? \ ## Answers ### Answer by Stuti Gupta > **Edward O Wilson sometimes called 'the Ant-Man' was a Harvard scientist and entomologist. He passed away lately at 92.** \ **[Edward Osborne Wilson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson)** was a **scientist, naturalist, and writer from the United States**. His expertise was myrmecology, or the research of ants, for which he was known as the **world's foremost specialist**, and he was known as **Ant-Man**. Wilson has been dubbed '**the father of sociobiology**' and '**the father of biodiversity**' for his environmentalism as well as his secular-humanist and deist views on **[religion](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94244/which-country-in-the-world-prevents-a-person-to-change-his-religion)** and ethical issues. His achievements in ecological theory include the idea of island biogeography, which provided as the framework for the subject of nature reserve design, and also **Stephen P. Hubbell's** unified neutral concept of biodiversity. \ **Also Read: [Which state conducted its first-of-its-kind Real Estate Summit?](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95965/which-state-conducted-its-first-of-its-kind-real-estate-summit)** **\** ![Who was Edward O Wilson, who has been in news recently?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/c7a3bf8d-033e-4cf7-867d-f02aa5da99c8/images/bd817e26-ca3c-4eda-a275-d96f737e6080.jpeg)\ \ **Publications including Time and the Encyclopaedia Britannica** named Wilson one of the **world's foremost researchers and influential persons**. He was an official representative of more than 30 world-renowned and prominent **organizations, institutes, and [institutions](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/37266/which-institutions-organisations-are-headed-by-the-prime-minister-of-india)**, and he won over 150 outstanding prizes and medals from throughout the world. Several animal species, predominantly ant species, but also one bird as well as one bat species, have been formally named in his honor. --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95966/who-was-edward-o-wilson-who-has-been-in-news-recently Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.