Alabama NewsCenter — Alabama native E.O. Wilson, internationally recognized biologist and author, dead at 92

By Bloomberg

E.O. Wilson, a Birmingham native and former Harvard University biologist and Pulitzer Prize winner whose study of ants and human behavior made him one of the world’s most influential scientists and prompted his calls for action to protect millions of species on the planet, has died. He was 92.

Wilson, a University of Alabama (UA) graduate who spent a formative part of his childhood in south Alabama, died Sunday in Burlington, Massachusetts, the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation said on its website. No cause was given. Wilson was a resident of nearby Lexington, Massachusetts.

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