In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

" Wilson (born June 10 1929) is an American biologist researcher (sociobiology biodiversity) theorist (consilience biophilia) naturalist (conservationist) and author. O. His biological specialty is myrmecology the study of ants on which he is considered to be the world's leading authority.