NATURALIST, BY E. O. WILSON

This is E. O. Wilson’s autobiography. I picked it up because he’s one of the few famous ecologists I can think of off hand, I would like to know more about the kind of people who populate the fields of science I may enter, and because anything with the word ‘naturalist’ in the title draws my eye. So far it’s been quite good.

Finished…
Indeed, quite good. I don’t usually read biographies of any kind, let alone of scientists. Perhaps reading the autobiography of a man who’s lead a life of the highest scientific achievement, public aclaim, and derision wasn’t the best way to get a representative look at the life of an ecologist, but I think it was informative. Feeling a little better about grad school now, I think…