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Living on Earth Profile Series #21: E. O. Wilson: Of the Grasshopper and the Ant

Living on Earth
August 14, 2013

    Living on Earth producer Kim Motylewski and host Steve Curwood profile Edward O. Wilson. The sometimes controversial Harvard professor turned his childhood passion of studying insects into a lifelong career as a researcher, teacher and author of books on animal biology, ecology, human population, biodiversity and a new theory called the “Biophilia Hypothesis.”

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