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by Edward O. Wilson

Dunne, William M. P., 377

  Durham, William H., 353

  Dyson, Freeman J., 350

  Eads, James H., 116–117

  Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 359

  earthquake, 174

  Ecological Society of America, 239, 310

  ecology, at Harvard, 219–220, 233

  Edmondson, W. Thomas, 236

  Edsall, John T., 220

  Ehrlich, Paul R., 358

  Eisner, Thomas, 141–144, 279, 358, 378

  electronic database, 370–373

  Eliot, T. S., 146

  Emerson, Alfred E., 215, 311

  Emery, Carlo, 199

  Encyclopedia of Life, 370–371

  Endangered Species Act, 359

  Enlightenment, 368

  ethology, 285–288, 299–300

  Europe, museum tour, 199–200

  European Sociobiological Society, 335

  evolutionary biology, origin of term, 226–227; research strategy, 166–167

  evolutionary psychology, 373–374

  Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (book), 331

  eye injury, 13–14

  Fallacy of Affirming the Consequent, 251

  Farragut, Admiral David, 65–66

  father, see Wilson, Edward O., Sr.

  Feldman, Marcus W., 353

  fights, boyhood, 54–55

  Fiji, 165–169

  fire ants, 48–49, 71, 115–117, 288–295

  fish biology, 93, 204

  Fisher, Ronald A., 111

  fishing, 10–11, 13, 53–54

  fistfights, 54–55

  flies, scientific study, 93–94

  Florida Audubon Society, 279

  Florida Keys, 262–281

  fly catching, 76

  Folsom, Governor James E. (Sr.), 107

  football, 82–84, 93

  Ford, Franklin L., 378

  Ford Motor Company, 367

  Freeman, Martin, 66–67

  Freeman, Robert, Jr. (great-grandfather), 128

  Frisch, Karl von, 285, 299, 304

  frogs, 15, 113–115, 196

  functional sociobiology, 374

  funding, 367–370

  The Future of Life (book), 368

  Galápagos Islands, 209

  Gap, 367

  Gell-Mann, Murray, 325

  gene-culture coevolution, 350–353

  genetic evolution of social behavior, 374

  Genetics and the Origin of Species (book), 112

  Genovese, Eugene D., 340

  Geographical Ecology (book), 255, 258

  GI Bill of Rights, 101–102

  global biodiversity conservation, 367–373

  “Glossary of Phrases in Molecular Biology,” 229–230

  Gödel, Escher, Bach (book), 294

  Goodall, Jane, 308

  Gould, Stephen Jay, 337, 341, 347, 349–350, 378

  Grant, Peter R., 209

  Grant, Rosemary, 209

  Gressitt, J. Linsley, 183

  Griffin, Donald R., 228–229

  Growth and Regulation in Animal Populations (book), 233

  Gulf Coast Military Academy, 16–25, 31–32, 73

  Hägg, Gunder, 118, 120

  Haiti, 29–30

  Haldane, J. B. S., 111, 374

  Hall, Donald, 146

  Hamilton, William D., 253, 315–321, 374, 378

  Handbook for Boys, 73–77, 79

  Hardy, Frank, Sr., 377

  Hardy, G. H., 244–245

  Harris, Marvin, 350

  Harvard Forest, 231

  Harvard Magazine, 354–355

  Harvard University, appointment procedure, 227; Wilson’s career, 129, 132–138, 140–146, 200–203, 366–367; and world biodiversity survey, 370–371, 373

  harvester ants, 52–53

  Haskins, Caryl P., 170–181

  Hawkins, Mary Ann (ancestor), 64

  Hawks, Howard, 162

  Heinrich, Bernd, 121

  heroes, 26–32

  Hofstadter, Douglas R., 294

  Holden Green, Harvard University, 200

  Holland, W. J., 58

  Hölldobler, Bert, 259, 299–306, 338, 378

  honorary doctorate, 367

  Horton, Kathleen M., 324, 379

  housing, Cambridge and Lexington, 200, 242–243

  Hubbard, Ruth, 337

  Hubby, J. L., 343

  Huddleston, Harold H. (stepfather), 128, 136

  Huddleston, Inez Linnette Freeman (mother), 6–7, 16–17, 38, 52, 97, 101, 127–129, 136, 377

  Hughes, J. M. Langston, 4, 378

  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, 335

  human evolution, 130–131

  Human Genome Project, 370

  human social behavior, 373–375

  humanism, 369, 375–376

  hunting, 8–9

  Huon Peninsula, 183–196

  hurricanes, 266, 271–272

  Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 221

  Hutchinson, Arthur, 235

  Hutchinson, G. Evelyn, 209–210, 235–237, 239, 244, 257

  Hutchinsonian niche, 236

  Huxley, Julian S., 313

  Hymenoptera, 318–321, 326–327

  illness, 174

  Indonesia, 248

  Insect Societies (book), 321–323

  Intel, 367–368

  International Committee Against Racism (INCAR), 348–350

  International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 355–356

  Internet publishing, 372–373

  island biogeography, 166–167, 216–217, 244, 248–253, 255–256, 260–281, 312

  Janzen, Daniel H., 358

  Jeanne, Robert L., 284, 378

  jellyfish, 5–6

  Jones, Quentin, 147–152

  Joyner, Anna Amelia (great-grandmother), 64

  Joyner, James Eli (great-grandfather), 64

  Judeo-Christian scripture, 368–369

  Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, 144–145

  Karlson, Peter, 288

  Kennedy, Donald, 141

  Kennedy, J. S., 321

  Kiester, Ross, 257

  Kimura, Motoo, 353

  kin selection, 315–321, 326–327

  King, Martin Luther, Sr., 45–46

  Kipling, Rudyard, 240

  Kistiakowski, George B., 334

  Kitchens, General Edward B., 377

  Klopfer, Peter, 236

  Knoxville, Tennessee, 129–132

  Krakatau, 252, 260–261

  Lack, David, 209, 239, 287

  Ladurie, Emmanuel, 328

  Lamont, Joyce, 378

  Landry, Sarah, 324

  Law, John H., 292–293

  Lawrence, T. E., 240

  Leach, Edmund, 352–353

  leeches, 186, 194

  Leibniz Prize, 301

  Leigh, Egbert G., 236, 252–253, 312

  Levenson Prize, Harvard College, 203

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 328

  Levine, Paul, 220–221

  Levins, Richard, 253, 312, 337, 346

  Levy, Jerre, 335

  Lewontin, Richard C., 253, 259, 312, 337, 341–347, 353

  Lignumvitae Key, 246, 277–279

  Lindauer, Martin, 304

  Lindroth, Carl, 215

  Livingstone, Katherine, 258

  lizards, 150–151, 271–272

  Lorenz, Konrad, 277, 285–287, 299, 315, 378

  Lost World (book), 139

  Louis, Joe, 54, 70

  Lovejoy, Thomas E., 236, 358

  Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 145

  Lumsden, Charles J., 122, 350–353

  Lüscher, Martin, 288

  Lutz, Frank, 58

  Lysenko, Trofim D., 44

  MacArthur, Betsy, 259

  MacArthur, Robert H., 122, 236, 238–239, 243–260, 312, 342, 379

  MacLeod, Ellis G., 58–59, 71, 377

  magic, 314

  Maidl, Franz, 321

  Mammoth Cave, 128

  Man and Beast
symposia, 315

  Mann, William M., 60, 149–150

  mapping of biodiversity, 370–373

  Marine Biological Laboratory, 323–324

  Marlboro Circle, 252–254, 312

  mathematical ability, 122–123, 242, 244–245

  Matthew, William Diller, 211–212, 244

  Maximin, George, 254

  Maynard Smith, John, 338–339

  Mayr, Ernst, 44–45, 110, 112, 192, 215, 228, 232, 338, 344, 378

  McVoy, Barbara, 377–378

  Mead, Margaret, 331, 347–348

  Medawar, Peter B., 353

  Meinertzhagen, Richard, 240–241

  memory, its peculiar qualities, 5, 50–51

  Mercer Award, Ecological Society of America, 280

  Meselson, Matthew S., 220–221

  Methuselah (Cuban lizard), 150–151

  Mexico, field research, 151–157

  Michener, James A., 175

  mile run, 118–123

  military code, 18–19, 26–27

  military school, 16–25, 31–32

  Mill, John Stuart, 219

  Mitchell, Ralph, 336

  Mittermeier, Russell, 367

  Mobile Press Register, 71–73, 115, 138

  Mobile, Alabama, 54, 62–81, 124–127

  Mobile-Tensaw delta, 140

  moccasins (snakes), 89–91

  Modern Synthesis, evolutionary theory, 110–112, 286

  molecular biology, at Harvard, 218–237

  monkeys, 307–312

  Moore, Gordon, 368

  Mother Raub, see Raub, Belle

  mother, see Huddleston, Inez Linnette

  movies, 48

  Mundkur, Balaji, 361–362

  Murphy, Pearl, 14

  Museum of Comparative Zoology, 28, 231–232, 259, 301

  Myers, Jacob (great-great-grandfather), 65

  Myers, Norman, 356–358

  Myers, Sarah Solomon (great-great-grandmother), 65

  Nafpaktitis, Basil G., 378

  Naskrecki, Piotr, 373

  National Academy of Sciences, 343–344

  National Forum on BioDiversity, 358

  National Medal of Science, 257–259, 307

  National Museum of Natural History, 56–61, 94–96, 371

  National Science Foundation, 305

  National Zoological Park, 56–61

  natural selection, 111, 300, 315–321

  naturalist’s prayer, 171

  The Nature Conservancy, 279, 367

  Nature, as concept, x–xi

  Neo-Darwinism, 110–112

  neophilia, 171

  Nevins, Ralph, 275

  New Caledonia, 169–174

  New Guinea, 30, 31, 163, 181–196

  New Hebrides (Vanuatu), 174–175

  New York Botanical Garden, 367

  New York Review of Books, 337–339, 341

  newspaper route, 71–73

  Niedhauk, Russell and Charlotte, 277–278

  Nobel Prize, 222, 285

  North America, field work 1952, 143–144

  Northington Campus, 102, 118–119

  Nothomyrmecia (primitive ant), 176–181

  Odum, Eugene P., 257

  Odum, Howard T., 236

  Oluwasanmi, Hezekiah, 138–139

  On Aggression (book), 277, 315

  On Growth and Form (book), 313

  On Human Nature (book), 26, 341

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 44, 146

  Organization for Tropical Studies, 304–305, 356

  Orians, Gordon H., 360

  Orizaba, mountain, Mexico, 153–157

  Orlando, Florida, 52–54

  Oster, George F., 122, 314

  overpopulation, 368

  Paradise Beach, Florida, 5–15

  parent-offspring conflict, 326

  Patrick, William, 284–285, 378

  patriotism, 25–26

  Patterson, Floyd, 306

  Pellegrino University Professor (Harvard Univ.), 366

  Pensacola, Florida, 34–52

  Perry, Mr., 85–86

  Peterson, Roger Tory, 14

  pets, 39, 150–151

  Pharaoh’s ant, 283–285

  Pheidole (ant genus), 371–373

  Pheidole in the New World (book), 372–373

  pheromones, 287–299

  Phi Beta Kappa, 106

  phobias, 361

  Picasso, Pablo, 245

  Pico de Orizaba, Mexico, 153–157

  pinfish, 13

  poison oak, 69

  population biology, 233–234, 238–239, 299–300, 312

  porpoises, 9

  Powell, Muriella, 377

  priority, in science, 210

  Problems of Relative Growth (book), 313

  Ptashne, Mark S., 232, 283

  Pulitzer Prize, 306, 341

  Rabi, Isador I., 146

  race, in Old South, 70, 80–81

  rain forest mafia, 358

  rain forests, 152–153

  Ratard, Aubert, 175

  rattlesnakes, 78–79

  Raub, Belle (Mother Raub), 38–43, 84

  Raven, Peter H., 357–358

  Rawls, Hugh C., 102, 108, 113

  Red Data Books, 355

  religion, 33–46, 191–192, 366, 368–369

  Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), 106

  retirement, 366–367

  rhesus monkeys, 308–312

  Richards, O.W., 321

  Richards, Thomas, 279

  Richerson, Peter J., 353

  Robertson, William, 265, 269

  Robinson, Michael, 60

  Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C., 58

  Rogers, Wallace Roland, 34–38, 42–43

  Rollins, Reed C., 378

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 22–23, 70

  Rosen, Walter, 359–360

  Rosovsky, Henry, 146

  Roughgarden, Jonathan, 257

  Royal Entomological Society of London, 320

  running (sport), 118–121, 324

  Ruse, Michael, 378

  Sahlins, Marshall, 331–332

  salamanders, 104

  Samuelson, Paul A., 331

  Sanderson, Ivan, 139

  Sarawaget Mountains, New Guinea, 183–196

  Schneiderman, Howard A., 141

  Schoener, Thomas W., 257–258

  Schrödinger, Erwin, 44

  Science for the People, 337–341

  science, culture of, 27–28, 210–211; social value, 114, 375

  scientific humanism, 369, 375–376

  Scopes trial, Tennessee, 130

  Scott, John P., 311, 378

  sea nettle, 5–6

  sea, love of, 11

  Second World War, 69–71, 91

  Segerstråle, Ullica, 339, 378

  selfish gene, 317

  Seligmann, Peter, 367

  Serventy, Vincent, 178

  Seven Pillars of Wisdom (book), 240

  sex, education and humor, 79–80

  sharks, 9, 177, 272

  Sharp, Aaron J., 132, 378

  Shoemaker, Patricia, 377

  Silberglied, Robert E., 276–279

  Simberloff, Daniel S., 257, 266–281, 378

  Simla, 239–240

  Simpson, George Gaylord, 112, 228, 249

  Skinner, B. E, 286

  Slobodkin, Lawrence B., 229, 233–239, 243, 253–255, 258, 312, 323, 378

  Smith, Frederick E., 219–220, 378

  Smith, Marion R., 94–96, 116–117

  snake bite, 78–79, 90–91

  snakes, 69, 77–79, 86–91, 177, 361–362

  Snodgrass, R. E., 58

  social behavior, 373–375

  social insects, 317–322, 326–327, see also ants

  Society of Fellows, 144–146

  Sociobiology (book), 323–329, 332–339, 374

  Sociobiology Study Group, 337–341

  sociobiology, history of, 225, 253, 281, 300, 307–353, 373–374

  Solomon, Jacob (anc
estor), 65

  Southern Baptists, 368

  southern manners, 25

  spiders, 188, 270, 275–276

  Spirals (book), 284–285

  Spring Hill, Trinidad, 239–240

  Sri Lanka, 197–199

  Stanford University, 201–202

  Stanley, G. A. V., 181

  Starbucks, 367

  Stebbins, G. Ledyard, 112

  Sterling, Wallace, 201–202

  stingrays, 8–11

  Stockdale, Admiral James B., 26–27

  subspecies concept, 206–208

  Suriname, 241

  Systematics and the Origin of Species (book), 44–45, 110, 112, 232

  Szent-Györgyi, Albert v. N., 317

  Szent-Ivany, Joseph, 181, 183

  Tales of the South Pacific (book), 175

  Talmud, 51

  taxon cycle, 213–217

  taxonomy, 203–205, 369–373

  Taylor, Robert W., 180

  teaching, 77–79, 200–203

  Tempo and Mode in Evolution (book), 112

  Tendrich, Steve, 268–269, 272–275

  Tennessee evolution law, 130

  Tennessee Valley Authority, 93

  Tennessee, travels in, 130

  Terman, Frederick, 201–202

  terrorism, 370

  Theory of Island Biogeography (book), 256, 319

  theory of the family, 326

  Thimann, Kenneth V., 378

  Thomas, Lewis, 330

  Thompson, D’Arcy W., 313

  Tinbergen, Niko, 285, 299

  toadfish, 11

  track (sport), 118–121

  Trinidad and Tobago, 239–242

  Trinidad Mountains, Cuba, 148–151

  Trivers, Robert L., 325–327, 378

  tropical biology, field research, 139–199

  University of Alabama, 100–120, 140, 376

  University of Chicago, 344

  University of Florida, 201

  University of Michigan, 201

  University of Tennessee, 129–132, 140

  University of Würzburg, 301, 305–306

  Use and Abuse of Biology (book), 331

  Uxmal, Yucatán, 152

  Valentine, Barry D., 108–110, 113, 378

  vampire bats, 240–241

  Van Valen, Leigh, 253

  Vander Meer, Robert K., 293

  Vanderbilt University, 98

  Vanuatu, 174–175

  Variation and Evolution in Plants (book), 112

  Vietnam War, 267

  vision, impaired, 13–15

  Waddington, Conrad Hall, 330

  Wald, George, 220, 222, 266

  Walker, J. Henry, 103

  Wallace, Alfred Russel, 163

  Wal-Mart, 367

  Walsh, Christopher T., 292–293

  Washington, D.C., 56–61

  Watson, Doc, 302

  Watson, Jack, 269

  Watson, James D., 218–225, 378

  Webster, Grady L., 147, 215

  Weinberg, Steven, 325

  Weisskopf, Victor F., x

  West Indies, 244, 375–376, see also Cuba

  Weston, William H. (“Cap”), 200, 202

  What Is Life? (book), 44

  Wheeler, William M., 94, 149

  Whitehead, Alfred North, 114

  wife, see Wilson, Irene (Renee)

 

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