Biologist E.O. Wilson, who influenced how people see evolution and nature, dies at 92
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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
The prominent biologist E.O. Wilson died yesterday. As NPR's Geoff Brumfiel reports, he shaped modern thinking on evolution and the environment.
GEOFF BRUMFIEL, BYLINE: E.O. Wilson started out small and ended up about as big as you can get. As a boy growing up in Alabama, he first discovered his love of nature, particularly insects.
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E O WILSON: I had a bug period - and I think most kids do - and I just never grew out of it.
BRUMFIEL: That was Wilson speaking to Public Radio's Science Friday back in 2012. There was one bug that truly captured his imagination - ants. Individually they were so weak, but collectively they had such power. Wilson wanted to know how the forces of evolution could have created such wonderful little insects, and ants became the focus of much of his work.
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