E. O. Wilson - evolutionary biologist, biodiversity advocate, naturalist - dies at age 92 - 12/27/21

Well, this Live Science article says that he named about 400 species. (I suspect mostly ants.) As to how many are named after him, I did not find any information. The birds with “Wilson’s” in their names were named after Alexander Wilson, 1786-1813, or, in the case of Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise, Edward Wilson, 1808-1888. That’s the trouble with having a common surname.

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