American biologist Edward O Wilson, a twice Pulitzer Prize-winning author who caused a storm by theorising that sexism, racism and violence were in part genetic, has died.
The professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author first gained widespread attention for his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, in which he spelled out the evidence suggesting a link between human behaviour and genetics.
In 1979, On Human Nature — the third volume in a series including The Insect Societies and Sociobiology — earned Wilson his first Pulitzer Prize. Critics argued that such a theory bolstered social injustice, including discrimination against women, by saying that inequality was written in human genes. He said later that the intensity of the reaction frightened him and for a time he gave up giving public lectures.Professor Wilson had a lifelong fascination with ants.
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