A eulogy for E.O. Wilson

A giant of modern evolutionary thinking and the inventor of sociobiology

[Figure of Homo habilis in (in)famous chapter 27 of Wilson’s Sociobiology, which applied same theoretical principles deployed in first 26 chapters on other social animals to human social behavior]

I heard someone on NPR the other morning refer to “the late E.O. Wilson.” Ed died during the Christmas holiday season, on December 26 of last year, and I some…