Wilson, E. O. 1987b. The earliest known ants: an analysis of the Cretaceous species and an inference concerning their social organization. Paleobiology 13:44-53. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1987c ("1986"). The organization of floor evacuation in the ant genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 33:458-469.

Wilson, E. O. 1985g. The principles of caste evolution. Fortschritte der Zoologie 31:307-324.

Wilson, E. O. 1986a ("1985"). Ants of the Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). 4. A giant ponerine in the genus Paraponera. Israel Journal of Entomology 19:197-200. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1986b. Caste and division of labor in Erebomyrma, a genus of dimorphic ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Insectes Sociaux 33:59-69. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1986c. The defining traits of fire ants and leaf-cutting ants. Pp. 1-9 in: Lofgren, C. S.; Vander Meer, R. K. (eds.) 1986. Fire ants and leaf-cutting ants. Biology and management. Boulder: Westview Press, xv + 435 pp.

Wilson, E. O. 1987a. Causes of ecological success: the case of the ants. The Sixth Tansley Lecture. Journal of Animal Ecology 56:1-9.

Wilson, E. O. 1985e. Invasion and extinction in the West Indian ant fauna: evidence from the Dominican amber. Science (Washington, D. C.) 229:265-267.

Wilson, E. O. 1985f. Ants from the Cretaceous and Eocene amber of North America. Psyche (Cambridge) 92:205-216. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1985a. Ants of the Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). 1. Two new myrmicine genera and an aberrant Pheidole. Psyche (Cambridge) 92:1-9. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1985b. Ants of the Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). 2. The first fossil army ants. Psyche (Cambridge) 92:11-16. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1985c. Ants of the Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). 3. The subfamily Dolichoderinae. Psyche (Cambridge) 92:17-37. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1985d. The sociogenesis of insect colonies. Science (Washington, D. C.) 228:1489-1495.

Wilson, E. O. 1981a. Epigenesis and the evolution of social systems. Journal of Heredity 72:70-77.

Wilson, E. O. 1981b. Communal silk-spinning by larvae of Dendromyrmex tree-ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 28:182-190.

Wilson, E. O. 1984a. The relation between caste ratios and division of labor in the ant genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 16:89-98.

Wilson, E. O. 1984b. Tropical social parasites in the ant genus Pheidole, with an analysis of the anatomical parasitic syndrome (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux 31:316-334. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1977a. [Review of: Wheeler, G. C., Wheeler, J. 1976. Ant larvae: review and synthesis. Mem. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 7:1-108.]. Science (Washington, D. C.) 195:975.

Wilson, E. O. 1977b ("1976"). The first workerless parasite in the ant genus Formica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 83:277-281. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1975d. Enemy specification in the alarm-recruitment system of an ant. Science (Washington, D. C.) 190:798-800. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1976a. The organization of colony defense in the ant Pheidole dentata Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 1:63-81. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1976b. A social ethogram of the Neotropical arboreal ant Zacryptocerus varians (Fr. Smith). Animal Behavior 24:354-363. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1976c. Behavioral discretization and number of castes in an ant species. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 1:141-154. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1976d. Which are the most prevalent ant genera? Studia Entomologica 19:187-200. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1975b. Leptothorax duloticus and the beginnings of slavery in ants. Evolution 29:108-119. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1975c. Slavery in ants. Scientific American 232(6):32-36. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1965c. A consistency test for phylogenies based on contemporaneous species. Systematic Zoology 14:214-220. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1974a. The soldier of the ant, Camponotus (Colobopsis) fraxinicola, as a trophic caste. Psyche (Cambridge) 81:182-188. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1974b. The population consequences of polygyny in the ant Leptothorax curvispinosus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 67:781-786. PDF

Wilson, E. O. 1975a. Sociobiology. The new synthesis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 697 pp.

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