E. O. Wilson

Edward Osborne Wilson, or E.O Wilson for short, is an American Biologist. He is well known for various important works in the Biology field. He also endures many nicknames such as “Father of Social Biology” (the social behavior in animals), “Father of Biodiversity” (variety of life in a habitat), but E.O Wilson is mainly known for his work in myrmecology, the study of ants. Before Wilson’s studies, the world knew substantially less about sociobiology, Biodiversity, how ants communicated, and many

bacteria. Unfortunately, scientist say we are currently living through the sixth mass extinction, the last one being sixty-five million years ago when the dinosaurs disappeared. But what is causing this mass extinction? One word: humans. E. O. Wilson, a famous American biologist, describes the main causes of extinction with a simple acronym: HIPPO or habitat, invasive species, pollution, population, and over-harvesting. Each of these causes traces back to humans. Habitat loss is when organisms

It makes you wonder “if they can do this, what else can they do?” It puts you on the edge of your seat by keeping you guessing on what else the ants can do to get their task accomplished. “Hardly had he seized it when a horde of infuriated ants flowed over his hands, arms and shoulders,” page 25. Ants ended up being all over Leiningen and because they are biting him, we all thought that this was when he would die from the ants eating him alive! It put us on edge again because of not knowing if Leiningen

Ants with Your Order Today, Sir? The majority of people in this country would dream of working in an ice cream shop and sweeping rainbow sprinkles off the floor everyday; I had accomplished this aspiration. I found my way into the ice cream business as a lowly sophomore and stayed there until I was a senior, three seasons. By ice cream standards, this means I am an experienced veteran and can make a perfect soft serve swirl with my eyes closed. This particular ice cream shop was filled with only

Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop For Death Collamer M Abbott. The Explicator. Washington: Spring 2000.Vol. 58, Iss. 3; pg. 140, 4 pgs People: Dickinson, Emily (1830-86) Author(s): Collamer M Abbott Document types: Feature Publication title: The Explicator. Washington: Spring 2000. Vol. 58, Iss. 3; pg. 140, 4 pgs Source type: Periodical ISSN/ISBN: 00144940 Text Word Count 1077 Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=000000056709394&Fmt=3&cli entId=43168&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Ant Army By Elijah Leonard “What if they can talk?” ask the humans. “What if they are smart?” ask the humans. “What if they took over the world?” ask the humans. Well, now’s our chance. I am Gerald, an ant that lives in a human family’s backyard, along with my own family. I have two best friends: Margaret and Antony. Margaret is supposed to be the smart one. She always has a plan and she has all A’s in all her classes at the insect school. Antony is the silly one. He always has a joke, even in

A Bugs life is a Disney Pixar animated film which involves Ants and other bugs coming together to fight the Grasshoppers. Hopper is the dominant male grasshopper character and in the film states that he wants to keep the ants in line and doesn’t care about the food (Bugs Life 1998). In Bug’s Life the relationship between the grass hoppers and the ants can be described and discussed in terms of the theory of class by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Marx first stated that because of the economic growth in

Stephen Jay Gould's The Creation Myths of Cooperstown and Edward O. Wilson's The Serpent If only I could have seen the blinding light before I complacently tagged along to Cooperstown with my Bazooka-chewing siblings and sunflower seed-spitting father. I would have loved to have known about the Cardiff Giant and the myth about the origin of baseball during our family vacation, but it was their moment of ignorant bliss and my moment to relish the songs of Helen Reddy. At the time,

I sat in the boardroom patiently with the other partners awaiting Lady O. The clock ticked filling in the void of silence as we all reviewed our papers. The door suddenly opened instantly catching our attention, Oprah walked in. She was captivated by our efficiency as well as the productivity of GIC. Our mentioning of this

“Each ant is a strange and alien force but, when they cooperate they become a world superpower” is not what most would say when describing something as small as an ant, but a phrase as bold as this captures an audience. Ants: Nature's Secret Power is a 2004 Animal Planet documentary, directed and written by Wolfgang Thaler, on the extraordinary life of ants. Throughout the film we follow a colony of Grass Cutter Ants in both their natural habitat and a laboratory setting, created by experts, each