Do not ever skip your science class 🥼
Remembering Late Great Edward Osborne Wilson: “The Father of Sociobiology” and “The Father of Biodiversity” 🔬
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“…Equally impressive, honeybees and some species of ants can remember the location of up to five places where food is found and the time of day at each when food is available.
How can an insect process so much information with a brain not much larger than the period below the question mark at the end of this sentence?
The principal reason is the way the insect brain much more efficient by unit volume—is constructed.
Glial cells, which support and protect the brain cells of larger animals, including us, are omitted in the insects, allowing more brain cells to be packed into the same space.
Also, each insect brain cell has many more connections on average to other cells than do those of vertebrates, allowing added communication by means of fewer information distribution centers.”
In this article, I review Edward Osborne Wilson’s great book ‘Letters to a Young Scientist’. The book is a gem not only to understand Edward Wilson’s scientific journey but also to learn how to carve one’s own path in science and academia.