FACTBOX-Five facts about naturalist E.O. Wilson -Breaking
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(Reuters.) – Five facts about E.O., American biologist and naturalist. Wilson, often referred to as “Darwin of the 21st Century”, died at the age-92 on Sunday.
* A young Wilson lost most of his vision in his right eye when it was cut by a fish’s fin. Wilson said that the injury made him more interested in ants and other insects, as he was able to see them close enough with his normal eye. This is a significant improvement over previous attempts at spotting large animals in open spaces.
* For his book “Pheidole in the New World,” a study of ants, Wilson did all 5,000 drawings himself, Harvard magazine said.
* Wilson grew up in the Southern Baptist church and eventually came to think of himself not as an atheist or agnostic but as a “provisional deist” who is “willing to accept the possibility that there is some kind of intelligent force beyond our current understanding”.
* Wilson honed his love of nature in the Boy Scouts, which he called an organization that “seemed invented just for me.” Wilson was awarded the elite rank Eagle Scout.
* Wilson’s other honors include the U.S. National Medal of Science, two Pulitzer Prizes for non-fiction and a spot on Time magazine’s list of the 25 most influential people in 1995.
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