E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson, usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalistand author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the world's leading expert...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth10 June 1929
CountryUnited States of America
simple brain use
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
brain humans known
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
brain mind religion
The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbor a nonphysical mind.
brain maps input
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
independent self brain
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased in more biological terms as follows: If our genes are inherited, and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment. It would appear that our freedom is only a self delusion.
emotional long brain
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior-like the deepest capacities for emotional respone which drive and guide it-is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact.
local troubling
I was completely surprised. I think things were troubling him from his local detractors.
statement surprised
I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).
easy good missed
I thought we missed too many easy shots. We made some good shots, but we missed a lot of easy ones.
caught last learned losses lost moved next team
I think we got caught up too much in the losses, when we really just should have learned from the losses and moved on. Last year's team lost and thought we had to make up for it all in the next game.
gas ran
I think we kind of ran out of gas at the end.
ballgame helped turn
I think what got us back in the ballgame was our press. We made them turn the ball over and it helped us get back in it.
developer fix scenario wonderful
I think a wonderful best-case scenario would be if a developer would fix it and take it over.
gave passion rest
It gave me discipline, it gave me passion for having the rest of my life.