Of Ants and Earth
Formal retirement hasn't slowed E. O. Wilson down at all. Since assuming emeritus status as Pellegrino University Research Professor in 1997, Wilson—the father of sociobiology and biophilia, the most acute student of ants among contemporary scholars, perhaps the foremost scientific spokesman for the importance of biodiversity—has, if anything, stepped up the pace of his research and writing and of his advocacy for conservation, toward which his science has impelled him.