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Biologist and entomologist; founder of the field of sociobiology
United States · 1929–2021
Science and medicine
American biologist, naturalist and entomologist at Harvard, the world's leading authority on ants, who developed the field of sociobiology and twice won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
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quite early I was picked up by teachers in these small schools in Alabama who encouraged that interest.
Yes, that’s right. I saw what I could succeed in. I never considered myself very bright, and I always thought of myself as mathematically mediocre. So I figured that probably, like your college runner who has difficulty breaking a ten-second hundred — well, breaking an 11-second, shall we say, 100-meter — realizes that their best shot is to rely less on strength and speed and more on self-discipline, planning, and long hard work. Yes. That’s the way I do science.
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