Harvard's E.O. Wilson And B. Holldobler Share 1991 Pulitzer Prize For The Ants

Harvard's E.O. Wilson And B. Holldobler Share 1991 Pulitzer Prize For The Ants University Of Wyoming President Named Head Of Western Science Consortium Joseph W. Plandowski Leo W. Buss Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University's Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, and Berthold H”lldobler, formerly Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard, have won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for The Ants. The 732-page, seven-pound book was published by Harvard Univers

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Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University's Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, and Berthold H”lldobler, formerly Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard, have won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for The Ants. The 732-page, seven-pound book was published by Harvard University Press last March. The two professors will share the $3,000 award. This is Wilson's second Pulitzer Prize.

The Ants, says Wilson, "is a synthesis of everything we know--not just the natural history and classification of ants, but a lot of ideas in population biology, microevolution, genetics, biochemistry, behavior, sociobiology." In addition to the three years spent writing the book, the two authors have "worked together in the lab and in the field for 20 years," he ...

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