Superorganism

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Emily Bernstein

A Portland researcher studying ants and other superorganisms.

Adam Lazarus

Look Insane, Be Kind, Talk Science from TEDx Woods Hole.

Edward Osborne Wilson

Born June 10, 1929, Edward O. Wilson is an American biologist, researcher (sociobiology, biodiversity), theorist (consilience, biophilia), naturalist (conservationist) and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants. Source.

In 2010 Wilson published a novel entitled The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, 2009, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-06704-0, with Bert Hölldobler Anthill.