King Solomon is quoted in the bible as telling people, “Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise.” Since his childhood, EO Wilson, the father of sociobiology, professor of zoology, and curator in entomology, has indeed been going to the ant. More than a decade ago, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his work on this small and annoying insect, one known more for infiltrating kitchen cupboards than for complex social behavior.
Now he has a new book: an 800 page volume on the genus Pheidole: better known as the big-headed ants that live and crawl from the U.S.A. to Argentina. All of them are represented in drawings by the scientist himself. EO Wilson and his new triumph of love.
Guests:
EO Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book The Ants. His most recent book is Pheidole in the New World: A Hyperdiverse Ant Genus.