Lincoln (Neb.) - Oct. 5, 1998 - Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson will deliver two free public lectures next week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Oct. 12 at 7 p.m., Wilson will discuss global biodiversity then will argue for the fundamental unity of all knowledge when he delivers "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge," in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues the following day at 3:30 p.m. Both lectures will be in the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. His Oct. 13 Thompson Forum lecture will be available live via satellite at sites statewide, including College Park at Grand Island, state colleges, community colleges and high schools.
Pellegrino University Professor and Curator in Entomology for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Wilson will discuss the need to search for consilience-the proof that everything in our world is organized in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws that comprise the principles underlying every branch of learning.
Wilson ranks as one of the leading biologists and scientific thinkers of this century. Winner of the National Medal of Science, the International Prize for Biology, the gold medal of the World Wildlife Fund and the Distinguished Humanist Award from the American Humanist Association, he is the founder of the controversial new field of sociobiology.
His acclaimed books include 1979 and 1991 Pulitzer Prize winners, "On Human Nature" and "The Ants." His most recent work, "Consilience," was a New York Times bestseller.
Major funding for the Thompson Forum is provided by the
Cooper Foundation. The series is named in honor of E.N. Thompson,
chairman of the foundation and originator of the series. Wilson's
Oct. 12 talk is sponsored by the Friends of the State Museum, the
Nebraska Nature Conservancy and the Friends of Loren Eiseley.
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