A Harvard professor for 46 years, he was an expert on insects and explored how natural selection and other forces could influence animal behavior. He then applied his research to humans.
...During his baptism, he became keenly aware that he felt no transcendence. "And something small somewhere cracked," Dr. Wilson wrote. He drifted away from the church.
"I had discovered that what I most loved on the planet, which was life on the planet, made sense only in terms of evolution and the idea of natural selection," Dr. Wilson later told the historian Ullica Segerstrale, "and that this was a far more interesting, richer and more powerful explanation than the teachings of the New Testament."
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...During his baptism, he became keenly aware that he felt no transcendence. "And something small somewhere cracked," Dr. Wilson wrote. He drifted away from the church.
"I had discovered that what I most loved on the planet, which was life on the planet, made sense only in terms of evolution and the idea of natural selection," Dr. Wilson later told the historian Ullica Segerstrale, "and that this was a far more interesting, richer and more powerful explanation than the teachings of the New Testament."
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