While Audubon may be the name most commonly associated with early ornithology in the U.S., there were other naturalists who were hard at work before him documenting the birdlife to be found in the newly founded country, foremost among them was Alexander Wilson.
I thought I’d take a short break from writing a review of one of the most problematic books I’ve yet read about Charles Darwin to make a recommendation of one of the best collections I know of some of the most important and frequently referenced books he himself wrote.
To borrow a well-used old phrase and write that Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, “wrote the book” on ants is neither to exaggerate nor employ a metaphor.
To say that Edward O. Wilson wrote the book on ants is neither to exaggerate nor employ a metaphor; it was written in scholastic partnership with his long-time scientific collaborator Bert Hölldobler, titled “The Ants,” and published in 1990. In 1991 it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.