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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
E. O. Wilson
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E. O. Wilson
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 10
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A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.
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No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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