Pioneering biologist Edward O Wilson who redefined human behaviour dies at 92

Edward O Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize for a book he co-authored on ants (AP Photo)

Edward O Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who argued for a new vision of human nature in “Sociobiology” and warned against the decline of ecosystems, has died. He was 92.

Wilson died on December 26 in Burlington, Massachusetts, according to an announcement posted Monday on the EO Wilson Biodiversity Foundation’s website.