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232 relations: Academy of Achievement, Agnosticism, Alabama, Alan G. Gross, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Humanist Association, American Museum of Natural History, American Philosophical Society, American Scientist, Ant, Anthill: A Novel, Anthropomorphism, Archipelago, Atheism, Audubon, Éditions Larousse, Bachelor of Science, Baptists, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Benjamin Franklin Medal (American Philosophical Society), Bert Hölldobler, Biodiversity, Biological determinism, Biologist, Biophilia hypothesis, BioScience, Birmingham, Alabama, Boy Scouts of America, Burlington, Massachusetts, Cambridge University Press, Canopy (biology), Carl Sagan Award for Public Appreciation of Science, Catalonia International Prize, Cataract, Chambers (publisher), Character displacement, Charles J. Lumsden, CNN, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Conservation International, Conservation movement, Consilience, Consilience (book), Cordillera Azul antbird, Crafoord Prize, Daniel Simberloff, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, David Attenborough, Decatur, Alabama, ... Expand index (182 more) »
- American deists
- Biogeographers
- Entomological writers
- Myrmecologists
- Neutral theory
- Sociobiologists
Academy of Achievement
The American Academy of Achievement, colloquially known as the Academy of Achievement, is a nonprofit educational organization that recognizes some of the highest-achieving people in diverse fields and gives them the opportunity to meet one another.
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Agnosticism
Agnosticism is the view or belief that the existence of God, the divine, or the supernatural is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.
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Alabama
Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Alan G. Gross
Alan G. Gross (June 2, 1936 - October 16, 2020) was a professor of rhetoric and Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities where he also held appointments in the Center for Philosophy of Science, and in the rhetoric, scientific, and technical communication graduate program, the latter of which he was a founding faculty member.
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.
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American Humanist Association
The American Humanist Association (AHA) is a non-profit organization in the United States that advances secular humanism.
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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
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American Scientist
American Scientist (informally abbreviated AmSci) is an American bimonthly science and technology magazine published since 1913 by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society.
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Ant
Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.
Anthill: A Novel
Anthill: A Novel is a 2010 novel by the biologist Edward O. Wilson.
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Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities.
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Audubon
The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitats.
Éditions Larousse
Éditions Larousse is a French publishing house specialising in reference works such as dictionaries.
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Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
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Baptists
Baptists form a major branch of evangelicalism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete immersion.
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards are an international award programme recognizing significant contributions in the areas of scientific research and cultural creation.
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Benjamin Franklin Medal (American Philosophical Society)
The Benjamin Franklin Medal presented by the American Philosophical Society located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., also called Benjamin Franklin Bicentennial Medal, is awarded since 1906.
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Bert Hölldobler
Berthold Karl Hölldobler BVO (born 25 June 1936) is a German zoologist, sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist who studies evolution and social organization in ants. E. O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler are Entomological writers, Myrmecologists, Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners and sociobiologists.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Biological determinism
Biological determinism, also known as genetic determinism, is the belief that human behaviour is directly controlled by an individual's genes or some component of their physiology, generally at the expense of the role of the environment, whether in embryonic development or in learning.
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Biologist
A biologist is a scientist who conducts research in biology.
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Biophilia hypothesis
The biophilia hypothesis (also called BET) suggests that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life.
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BioScience
BioScience is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
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Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is a city in the north central region of Alabama.
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Boy Scouts of America
tag and place it alphabetically by ref name.
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Burlington, Massachusetts
Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Canopy (biology)
In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant cropping or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns.
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Carl Sagan Award for Public Appreciation of Science
The Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science is an award presented by the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) to individuals who have become “concurrently accomplished as researchers and/or educators, and as widely recognized magnifiers of the public's understanding of science.” The award was first presented in 1993 to astronomer Carl Sagan (1934–1996), who is also the award's namesake.
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Catalonia International Prize
The Catalonia International Prize (Premi Internacional Catalunya) is a Spanish international prize, awarded every year since 1989 by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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Cataract
A cataract is a cloudy area in the lens of the eye that leads to a decrease in vision of the eye.
Chambers (publisher)
Chambers is a reference publisher formerly based in Edinburgh, Scotland, which held the property rights of Chambers Publishers.
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Character displacement
Character displacement is the phenomenon where differences among similar species whose distributions overlap geographically are accentuated in regions where the species co-occur, but are minimized or lost where the species' distributions do not overlap.
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Charles J. Lumsden
Charles J. Lumsden (born 1949) is a Canadian biologist in the Department of Medicine and Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), is a program within the U.S. non-profit organization Center for Inquiry (CFI), which seeks to "promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims." Paul Kurtz proposed the establishment of CSICOP in 1976 as an independent non-profit organization (before merging with CFI as one of its programs in 2015), to counter what he regarded as an uncritical acceptance of, and support for, paranormal claims by both the media and society in general.
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Conservation International
Conservation International (CI) is an American nonprofit environmental organization headquartered in Crystal City, Virginia, in Arlington County, Virginia.
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Conservation movement
The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to manage and protect natural resources, including animal, fungus, and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.
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Consilience
In science and history, consilience (also convergence of evidence or concordance of evidence) is the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated sources can "converge" on strong conclusions.
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Consilience (book)
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by the biologist E. O. Wilson, in which the author discusses methods that have been used to unite the sciences and might in the future unite them with the humanities.
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Cordillera Azul antbird
The Cordillera Azul antbird (Myrmoderus eowilsoni) is a Near Threatened species of passerine bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds".
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Crafoord Prize
The Crafoord Prize is an annual science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord.
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Daniel Simberloff
Daniel Simberloff is an American biologist and ecologist. E. O. Wilson and Daniel Simberloff are American ecologists and Fellows of the Ecological Society of America.
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Dauphin Island Sea Lab
The Dauphin Island Sea Lab (DISL) is Alabama's primary marine education and research center.
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David Attenborough
Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is a British broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and writer. E. O. Wilson and David Attenborough are writers about activism and social change and writers about religion and science.
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Decatur, Alabama
Decatur is the largest city and county seat of Morgan County (with a portion also in Limestone County) in the U.S. state of Alabama.
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Deism
Deism (or; derived from the Latin term deus, meaning "god") is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being as the creator of the universe.
Discover (magazine)
Discover is an American general audience science magazine launched in October 1980 by Time Inc.
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Distinguished Eagle Scout Award
The Distinguished Eagle Scout Award (DESA) is a distinguished service award of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
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Doctor of Philosophy
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.
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Donald J. Farish
Donald J. Farish (December 7, 1942 – July 5, 2018) was a Canadian American biologist and zoologist who served as the 10th president of Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.
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Dual inheritance theory
Dual inheritance theory (DIT), also known as gene–culture coevolution or biocultural evolution, was developed in the 1960s through early 1980s to explain how human behavior is a product of two different and interacting evolutionary processes: genetic evolution and cultural evolution.
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Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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Eagle Scout
Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Scouts BSA program by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
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Earth & Sky
Earth & Sky was a daily radio series that presented information about science and nature.
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ECI Prize
The ECI Prize is a prize awarded annually from 1986 onwards to an ecologist distinguished by outstanding and sustained scientific achievements.
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Ecology
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
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Emeritus
Emeritus (female version: emerita) is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus".
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free, online encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science.
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Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.
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Epic of evolution
In social, cultural, and religious studies in the United States, the "epic of evolution" is a narrative that blends religious and scientific views of cosmic, biological, and sociocultural evolution in a mythological manner.
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Epigenetics
In biology, epigenetics is the study of heritable traits, or a stable change of cell function, that happen without changes to the DNA sequence.
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Eugenics
Eugenics is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population.
Eusociality
Eusociality (Greek εὖ eu "good" and social) is the highest level of organization of sociality.
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Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Evolutionary origin of religion
The evolutionary origin of religion and religious behavior is a field of study related to evolutionary psychology, the origin of language and mythology, and cross-cultural comparison of the anthropology of religion.
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Extinction event
An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth.
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Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science, and medical science".
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Fire ant
Fire ants are several species of ants in the genus Solenopsis, which includes over 200 species.
Fitness (biology)
Fitness (often denoted w or ω in population genetics models) is a quantitative representation of individual reproductive success.
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Fly
Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wing".
Forests Now Declaration
The Forests Now Declaration was a 2007 declaration that advocates using carbon credits to protect tropical forests.
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Frank M. Carpenter
Frank Morton Carpenter (September 6, 1902 – January 18, 1994) was an American entomologist and paleontologist. E. O. Wilson and Frank M. Carpenter are 20th-century American zoologists and American entomologists.
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Free will
Free will is the capacity or ability to choose between different possible courses of action.
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Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
Future of Earth
The biological and geological future of Earth can be extrapolated based on the estimated effects of several long-term influences.
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Gale (publisher)
Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.
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Gene
In biology, the word gene has two meanings.
Global Environmental Citizen Award
The Global Environmental Citizen Award is an environmental award created by the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment and bestowed annually upon an individual working to restore and protect the global environment.
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Gorongosa National Park
Gorongosa National Park is at the southern end of the Great African Rift Valley in the heart of central Mozambique, Southeast Africa.
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Grand Central Publishing
Grand Central Publishing is a book publishing imprint of Hachette Book Group, originally established in 1970 as Warner Books when Kinney National Company acquired the Paperback Library.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Group selection
Group selection is a proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the level of the individual or gene.
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Half-Earth
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life is a 2016 book by the biologist E. O. Wilson, the last in a trilogy beginning with The Social Conquest of Earth (2012) and The Meaning of Human Existence (2014).
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Harper Lee Award
The Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Year is an annual award recognizing a writer who was born in Alabama or has spent their formative years there.
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Harvard Museum of Natural History
The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Harvard Society of Fellows
The Society of Fellows is a group of scholars selected at the beginnings of their careers by Harvard University for their potential to advance academic wisdom, upon whom are bestowed distinctive opportunities to foster their individual and intellectual growth.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Heartland Prize
The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize is a literary prize created in 1988 by the newspaper The Chicago Tribune.
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Heredity
Heredity, also called inheritance or biological inheritance, is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring; either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.
Human nature
Human nature comprises the fundamental dispositions and characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—that humans are said to have naturally.
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Humanism and Its Aspirations
Humanism and Its Aspirations (subtitled Humanist Manifesto III, a successor to the Humanist Manifesto of 1933) is the most recent of the Humanist Manifestos, published in 2003 by the American Humanist Association (AHA).
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Incest
Incest is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives.
Institute for Scientific Information
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield in Philadelphia in 1956.
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Insular biogeography
Insular biogeography or island biogeography is a field within biogeography that examines the factors that affect the species richness and diversification of isolated natural communities.
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International Academy of Humanism
The International Academy of Humanism, established in 1983, is a programme of the Council for Secular Humanism.
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International Committee Against Racism
The International Committee Against Racism was the "mass organization" of the Progressive Labor Party in the United States.
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International Congress of Entomology
The International Congress of Entomology (ICE) is the largest in-person conference for the science of entomology.
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International Cosmos Prize
The International Cosmos Prize was established in 1993, commemorating Expo '90 in Osaka, Japan.
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International Prize for Biology
The is an annual award for "outstanding contribution to the advancement of research in fundamental biology." The Prize, although it is not always awarded to a biologist, is one of the most prestigious honours a natural scientist can receive.
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IPad
The iPad is a brand of iOS- and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple, first introduced on January 27, 2010.
Island Press
Island Press is a nonprofit, environmental publisher based in Washington, D.C., United States, that specializes in natural history, ecology, conservation, and the built environment.
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J. Philippe Rushton
John Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943 – October 2, 2012) was a Canadian psychologist and author. E. O. Wilson and J. Philippe Rushton are human evolution theorists and people involved in race and intelligence controversies.
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James D. Weinrich
James Donald "Jim" Weinrich (born 1950) is an American sex researcher and psychobiologist.
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Jerry Coyne
Jerry Allen Coyne (born December 30, 1949) is an American biologist and skeptic known for his work on speciation and his commentary on intelligent design.
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Journey to the Ants
Journey to the Ants: a Story of Scientific Exploration is a 1994 book by the evolutionary biologist Bert Hölldobler and the biologist Edward O. Wilson.
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. E. O. Wilson and Karl Marx are writers about activism and social change and writers about religion and science.
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Kew International Medal
The Kew International Medal is an award given to individuals who have made a significant contribution to science and conservation.
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Kin selection
Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives, even when at a cost to the organism's own survival and reproduction.
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Kistler Prize
The Kistler Prize (1999-2011) was awarded annually to recognize original contributions "to the understanding of the connection between human heredity and human society", and was named after its benefactor, physicist and inventor Walter Kistler.
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Knowledge
Knowledge is an awareness of facts, a familiarity with individuals and situations, or a practical skill.
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Lasius
Lasius is a genus of formicine ants.
Latrodectus
Latrodectus is a broadly distributed genus of spiders with several species that are commonly known as the true widows.
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Leidy Award
The Leidy Award is a medal and prize presented by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (formerly the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Letters to a Young Scientist
Letters to a Young Scientist is a 2013 book by E. O. Wilson.
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Lewis Thomas Prize
The Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, named for its first recipient, Lewis Thomas, is an annual literary prize awarded by The Rockefeller University to scientists or physicians deemed to have accomplished a significant literary achievement; it recognizes "scientists as poets." Originally called the Lewis Thomas Prize for the Scientist as Poet, the award was first given in 1993.
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Lexington, Massachusetts
Lexington is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 10 miles (16 km) from Downtown Boston.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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Linnean Society of London
The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy.
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List of University Professors at Harvard University
At Harvard University, the title of University Professor is Harvard's most distinguished professorial post, and is bestowed upon 25 of its tenured faculty members whose scholarship and other professional work have attained particular distinction and influence.
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Mark W. Moffett
Mark Moffett (born 7 January 1958) is a tropical biologist who studies the ecology of tropical forest canopies and the social behavior of animals (especially ants) and humans. E. O. Wilson and Mark W. Moffett are American ecologists, American entomologists, American naturalists, Entomological writers and Myrmecologists.
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Mary Midgley
Mary Beatrice Midgley (Scrutton; 13 September 1919 – 10 October 2018) was a British philosopher.
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Master of Science
A Master of Science (Magister Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree.
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Mental world
The mental world is an ontological category in metaphysics, populated by nonmaterial mental objects, without physical extension (though possibly with mental extension as in a visual field, or possibly not, as in an olfactory field) contrasted with the physical world of space and time populated with physical objects, or Plato's world of ideals populated, in part, with mathematical objects.
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Microbial ecology
Microbial ecology (or environmental microbiology) is the ecology of microorganisms: their relationship with one another and with their environment.
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Microevolution
Microevolution is the change in allele frequencies that occurs over time within a population.
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Microorganism
A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
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Misogyny
Misogyny is hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls.
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
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Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.
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Museum of Comparative Zoology
The Museum of Comparative Zoology (formally the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology and often abbreviated to MCZ) is a zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Myrmecology
Myrmecology (from Greek: μύρμηξ, myrmex, "ant" and λόγος, logos, "study") is a branch of entomology focusing on the scientific study of ants.
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National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
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National Medal of Science
The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics.
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National Museum of Natural History
The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States.
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Natural history
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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Naturalist (book)
Naturalist is an autobiography by naturalist, entomologist, and sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson first published in 1994 by Island Press.
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New Caledonia
New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a ''sui generis'' collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about east of Australia, and from Metropolitan France.
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New Scientist
New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.
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Newcomb Cleveland Prize
The Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is annually awarded to author(s) of outstanding scientific paper published in the Research Articles or Reports sections of Science.
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Nicholas School of the Environment
The Nicholas School of the Environment is one of ten graduate and professional schools at Duke University and is headquartered on Duke’s main campus in Durham, N.C. A secondary coastal facility, Duke University Marine Laboratory, is maintained in Beaufort, North Carolina.
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Nierenberg Prize
The Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest is given annually by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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Nokuse Plantation
Nokuse Plantation is a privately owned nature preserve in northwest Florida's Walton County.
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Nova (American TV program)
Nova (stylized as NOVΛ) is an American popular science television program produced by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1974.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
Obituary
An obituary (obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person.
Old-growth forest
An old-growth forest (also referred to as primary forest) is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance.
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On Human Nature
On Human Nature (1978; second edition 2004) is a book by the biologist E. O. Wilson, in which the author attempts to explain human nature and society through sociobiology.
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Open letter
An open letter is a letter that is intended to be read by a wide audience, or a letter intended for an individual, but that is nonetheless widely distributed intentionally.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
Peabody Museum of Natural History
The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University (also known as the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History or the Yale Peabody Museum) is one of the oldest, largest, and most prolific university natural history museums in the world.
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PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
The PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award is awarded by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center) for writing that exemplifies literary excellence on the subject of physical and biological sciences.
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Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House LLC is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House.
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Pensacola Hospital
The Pensacola Hospital (also known as the Old Sacred Heart Hospital) was a hospital in Pensacola, Florida, United States, located at 1010 North 12th Avenue.
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Pensacola, Florida
Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle.
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Pheromone
A pheromone is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.
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Pioneer Fund
The Pioneer Fund is an American non-profit foundation established in 1937 "to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences".
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Prospect (magazine)
Prospect is a monthly British general-interest magazine, specialising in politics, economics and current affairs.
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are awarded annually for the "Letters, Drama, and Music" category. E. O. Wilson and Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction are Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners.
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Race and intelligence
Discussions of race and intelligence – specifically regarding claims of differences in intelligence along racial lines – have appeared in both popular science and academic research since the modern concept of race was first introduced.
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Racism
Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.
Repopulation
Repopulation is the phenomenon of increasing the numerical size of human inhabitants or organisms of a particular species after they had almost gone extinct.
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Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, and author. E. O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins are Ethologists, secular humanists and writers about religion and science.
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Richard Lewontin
Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator. E. O. Wilson and Richard Lewontin are people involved in race and intelligence controversies.
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Robert H. MacArthur
Robert Helmer MacArthur (April 7, 1930 – November 1, 1972) was a Canadian-born American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community and population ecology. E. O. Wilson and Robert H. MacArthur are American ecologists.
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Rock Creek Park
Rock Creek Park is a large urban park that bisects the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. Created by Act of Congress in 1890, the park comprises 1,754 acres (2.74 mi2, 7.10 km2), generally along Rock Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River.
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Rockefeller University
The Rockefeller University is a private biomedical research and graduate-only university in New York City, New York.
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the royal academies of Sweden.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
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Science for the People
Science for the People (SftP) is an organization that emerged from the antiwar culture of the United States in the late 1960s.
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Scientific racism
Scientific racism, sometimes termed biological racism, is the pseudoscientific belief that the human species is divided into biologically distinct taxa called "races", and that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racial discrimination, racial inferiority, or racial superiority.
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Scientism
Scientism is the view that science and the scientific method are the best or only way to render truth about the world and reality.
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Secular humanism
Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system, or life stance that embraces human reason, logic, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism, while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of morality and decision-making.
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Slate (magazine)
Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.
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Socialism
Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.
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Sociobiology
Sociobiology is a field of biology that aims to explain social behavior in terms of evolution.
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Sociobiology Study Group
The Sociobiology Study Group was an academic organization formed to specifically counter sociobiological explanations of human behavior, particularly those expounded by the Harvard entomologist E. O. Wilson in Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975).
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975; 25th anniversary edition 2000) is a book by the biologist E. O. Wilson.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. E. O. Wilson and Stephen Jay Gould are American science writers, American skeptics, human evolution theorists and people involved in race and intelligence controversies.
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Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics, or stereo imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision.
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Taboo
A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred, or allowed only for certain people.
Tabula rasa
Tabula rasa (Latin for "blank slate") is the idea of individuals being born empty of any built-in mental content, so that all knowledge comes from later perceptions or sensory experiences.
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Taxon cycle
Taxon cycles refer to a biogeographical theory of how species evolve through range expansions and contractions over time associated with adaptive shifts in the ecology and morphology of species.
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Taxonomy (biology)
In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.
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TED (conference)
TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".
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The American Naturalist
The American Naturalist is the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society of Naturalists, whose purpose is "to advance and to diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the conceptual unification of the biological sciences." It was established in 1867 and is published by the University of Chicago Press.
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The Ants
The Ants is a zoology textbook by the German entomologist Bert Hölldobler and the American entomologist E. O. Wilson, first published in 1990.
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Earth Institute
The Earth Institute is a research institute at Columbia University created in 1995 for addressing complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with a focus on sustainable development.
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The Explorers Club
The Explorers Club is an American-based international multidisciplinary professional society with the goal of promoting scientific exploration and field study.
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The Extended Phenotype
The Extended Phenotype is a 1982 book by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author introduced a biological concept of the same name.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a global environmental organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New York Times Best Seller list
The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.
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The Social Conquest of Earth
The Social Conquest of Earth is a 2012 book by biologist Edward O. Wilson.
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The Theory of Island Biogeography
The Theory of Island Biogeography is a 1967 book by the ecologist Robert MacArthur and the biologist Edward O. Wilson. E. O. Wilson and the Theory of Island Biogeography are Neutral theory.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thomas Jefferson Foundation
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, originally known as the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation founded in 1923 to purchase and maintain Monticello, the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
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Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture recognizes individuals for distinguished contributions to the field of architecture.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an annual award for environmental science, environmental health, and energy.
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Unit of selection
A unit of selection is a biological entity within the hierarchy of biological organization (for example, an entity such as: a self-replicating molecule, a gene, a cell, an organism, a group, or a species) that is subject to natural selection.
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University of Alabama
The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, the Capstone, or Bama) is a public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada.
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Uppsala University
Uppsala University (UU) (Uppsala universitet) is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Vanuatu
Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu (République de Vanuatu; Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country in Melanesia, located in the South Pacific Ocean.
Vintage Books
Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954.
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W. W. Norton & Company
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Westermarck effect
The Westermarck effect, also known as reverse sexual imprinting, is a psychological hypothesis that states that people tend not to be attracted to peers with whom they lived like siblings before the age of six.
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WGBH-TV
WGBH-TV (channel 2), branded GBH or GBH 2 since 2020, is the primary PBS member television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
William H. Bossert
William H. Bossert (born 1937) is an American mathematician.
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Wilson's long-fingered bat
Wilson's long-fingered bat (Miniopterus wilsoni) is a species of bat described in 2020 from Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique.
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World Wide Fund for Nature
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
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Worldview
A worldview or a world-view or Weltanschauung is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view.
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1979 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1979.
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1991 Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes for 1991 included not only awards given in all categories, but two separate awards were given for International Reporting.
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See also
American deists
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bernard Haisch
- Bill Hicks
- Brett Gurewitz
- Cornelius Harnett
- E. O. Wilson
- Edward Bancroft
- Elihu Palmer
- Ethan Allen
- Ezekiel Polk
- Fredo Bang
- Isabel Paterson
- Lysander Spooner
- Matthew Perry
- Neil Armstrong
- Sidney Poitier
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Godfrey (inventor)
- Thomas Hinde
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Young (American revolutionary)
- Walter Kohn
Biogeographers
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Boris K. Stegmann
- Ceridwen Fraser
- Charles H. Smith (historian)
- Constantin N. Hurmuzachi
- David Stoddart (geographer)
- Debra Roberts
- E. O. Wilson
- Henri Gaussen
- Ian Simmons
- Ivan Zatevakhin (TV presenter)
- Jürgen Haffer
- Jens-Christian Svenning
- Joy Tivy
- Léon Croizat
- Li Sizhong (ichthyologist)
- Louise Filion
- Max Carl Wilhelm Weber
- Miklos Udvardy
- P. Jackson Darlington Jr.
- Paul Müller (biologist)
- Philip Stott
- Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet
- Richard Lydekker
- Robert Ornduff
- Sally P. Horn
- Sven P. Ekman
- Thomas Gillespie (geographer)
- Thomas T. Veblen
- Tso-hsin Cheng
- Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov
- Yuri Isakov
Entomological writers
- A. Maitland Emmet
- Adam Hart
- Arthur V. Evans
- Bernard Skinner (entomologist)
- Bert Hölldobler
- E. O. Wilson
- George McGavin
- Maria Matilde Principi
- Mark W. Moffett
- May Berenbaum
- Morten Thrane Brünnich
Myrmecologists
- Adele M. Fielde
- Auguste Forel
- Barry Bolton
- Bert Hölldobler
- Brian Fisher (entomologist)
- Carl Rettenmeyer
- Corrie Moreau
- Deborah M. Gordon
- Derek Wragge Morley
- E. O. Wilson
- Eugène Marais
- Felix Santschi
- Fergus O'Rourke
- Frederick Smith (entomologist)
- Giovanni Cobelli
- Gustav Mayr
- Henry Christopher McCook
- Horace Donisthorpe
- Johan Christian Fabricius
- John C. Moser
- John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
- John O. Westwood
- John S. Clark
- Konstantin Arnoldi
- Laurent Keller
- Mark W. Moffett
- Mary Talbot (entomologist)
- Murray S. Blum
- Neal A. Weber
- Pavel Iustinovich Marikovsky
- Roy Snelling
- Theodore Pergande
- Thomas Borgmeier
- Thomas C. Jerdon
- Tom Rasberry
- Walter R. Tschinkel
- Walter Wolfgang Kempf
- William Gould (naturalist)
- William Morton Wheeler
- William Steel Creighton
Neutral theory
- Background selection
- Constructive neutral evolution
- E. O. Wilson
- Jack Lester King
- Kelly's ZnS
- Masatoshi Nei
- Michael Lynch (geneticist)
- Motoo Kimura
- Nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution
- Neutral mutation
- Neutral theory of molecular evolution
- Silent mutation
- Stephen P. Hubbell
- Synonymous substitution
- The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
- The Theory of Island Biogeography
- Thomas H. Jukes
- Tomoko Ohta
- Unified neutral theory of biodiversity
- Zero-Force Evolutionary Law
Sociobiologists
- Bert Hölldobler
- E. O. Wilson
- Irwin Bernstein
- Joseph Lopreato
- Rebecca D. Costa
- Richard Machalek
- Robert Trivers
- William Spady
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