Wheeler, William Morton

Rasmus G Winther, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002950

1865–1937 American myrmecologist interested in evolution, ethology, taxonomy, embryology, morphology and philosophy.

Keywords: social insects; ants; evolution; ethology; philosophy

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Further Reading
	book Wheeler WM (1910) Ants: Their Structure, Development and Behavior. New York: Columbia University Press.
	book Wheeler WM (1927) Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies. New York: WW Norton.
	book Wheeler WM (1939) Essays in Philosophical Biology, Parker, GH (ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
	Brues CT (1937) Professor William Morton Wheeler. With a list of his published writings. Psyche 44: 61–96.
	book Evans MA and Evans HE (1970) William Morton Wheeler, Biologist. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
	book Mitman G (1992) The State of Nature. Ecology, Community, and American Social Thought, 1900–1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
	Parker GH (1938) William Morton Wheeler. Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 19: 203–241.
	book Shor EN (1976) "William Morton Wheeler". In: Gillispie CC (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.