Farewell to Edward O. Wilson, science loses its “ant man”. He is responsible for the term “biodiversity”

Scandalous and heretical, even sadistic. The opponents did not forgive him for having preferred DNA to art and for having put genetics first and culture only second. He, Edward O. Wilson, the father of sociobiology, was accused of having constructed an idea of ​​human nature that was not only unpleasant and disconcerting, but downright dangerous. The cumbersome prevalence of biological laws – critics observed – opened the doors to the worst instincts, justifying the dark stereotypes that fuel sexism and racism.