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Scientist Edward Wilson, Nicknamed ‘Darwin’s Natural Heir’, Dies At 92
<!-- -->Scientist Edward O. Wilson's death was announced Monday by his foundation. (File)Washington: Edward O. Wilson, the trailblazing US scientist, professor and author whose study of insects and clarion call to protect Earth earned…
Edward O. Wilson, biologist referred to as ‘Darwin’s natural heir,’ dead at 92 |…
Edward O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who argued for a new vision of human nature in Sociobiology and warned against the decline of ecosystems, has died. He was 92. Wilson died on Dec. 26 in Burlington, Mass., according to an…
Darwin’s short-beak enigma solved: Mutation in the ROR2 gene is linked to beak length in domestic…
Charles Darwin was obsessed with domestic pigeons. He thought they held the secrets of selection in their beaks. Free from the bonds of natural selection, the 350-plus breeds of domestic pigeons have beaks of all shapes and sizes within a…