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And just as Pierce studies the mutual relationship between insects, she herself engages in a mutual relationship with other entymological disciplines. Colleagues say Pierce has a unique talent for tackling the tough questions about butterflies by drawing on approaches from fields other than her own.
"What is particularly unusal about Naomi is her ability to attack the same subject from many different points of view," says Norm Carlin, who studied with Pierce in the Biology Department at exocrine biology--she's remarkably well-versed in a number of different areas."
As an example, in tracing the origin of communication between caterpillars and ants, Pierce has worked with both molecular biologists and biochemists.
Early on, Pierce's penchant for interdisciplinary studies took her beyond the world of butterflies into the world of ants--with none other than Harvard's Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning entymologist known affectionately as the "ant man."
Pierce actually studied under Wilson when she was working towards her Ph.D. at Harvard. But the ant man in not Pierce's number one mentor. That distinction belongs to Remington, whose inspiring lecture on butterflies convinced Pierce to stop by his offices while she was an undergraduate.