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Nobel Prize-winning biologist James D. Watson and Pulitzer Prize-winning Biology Professor Edward O. Wilson spoke in front of a nearly 1,000-person audience in Sanders Theatre yesterday, marking the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species...
...Watson, best known for his groundbreaking discovery of the structure of DNA, began his career as a student of zoology, but later switched to the budding field of genetic biology in the early 1950s, after finding ecology “not very intellectually demanding...
Meanwhile, Wilson joined the Harvard faculty a year before Watson in 1955 in the Biology Department, and has since continued as a pioneer in the discipline, discovering scores of insect species over the course of his 60-year career...
...Watson and Wilson had once exemplified the two polarized factions of the biological sciences. Watson focused much of his career on the molecular basis of life and Wilson studied the evolution and social behavior of ‘critters...
Though now reformed rivals, Watson and Wilson did attest to the critical role of ambition and competition in making scientific advances. “You have to have an enemy,” Watson said...