The E. O. Wilson Reference Series
A Guide to Knowledge in Books
A four-volume scholarly reference to the life, science, and vision of Edward O. Wilson — from the ants of an Alabama boyhood to the diversity of life and the unity of knowledge.
Published by AI Reference Publishers
Four Volumes, One Vision
Edward O. Wilson wrote 24 books across seventy years. This series gathers them into four connected volumes — a reader, a reference guide, a subject guide, and a database — unified by his conviction that the living world is one connected whole.
A chronological review of Wilson's work in original essays — chapter by chapter, across seven parts and twenty-eight chapters.
An in-depth, book-by-book reference: a bio-bibliographical essay, a chronological guide, and chapter-level abstracts with Library of Congress classifications.
Access to Wilson's thought by subject and theme, following his own outline of knowledge from the social insects to consilience.
A searchable database of the ideas and passages across Wilson's works, drawn from the underlying classified corpus.
Ants and the other small creatures are the little things that run the world.
The Scope of the Work
Begin Here
Start with the Reader — a chronological, chapter-by-chapter review of Wilson's work in original essays. Part I gathers the works in which he made his name as the world's foremost student of the social insects: the insect societies, the ants, chemical communication, and the world of termites, bees, and wasps.
Who was E. O. Wilson?
Edward O. Wilson (1929–2021) was among the foremost naturalists in the world — creator of the fields of island biogeography and sociobiology, originator of the concepts of biophilia, biodiversity studies, and consilience, and a leading voice for the conservation of life on Earth. This series traces the arc of that work, whole.