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Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American.

For the seven days starting May 16th, I'm Steve Mursky.

This week on the podcast, we'll hear from renowned scientists and writer E.O. Wilson

about a brand new project, one of the great biology initiatives ever.

And we'll talk to journalist John Horgan about human nature and other stuff.

And John and E.O. Wilson talked to each other.

Last Wednesday night, May 9th, E.O. Wilson sat down with John Hogan at the Stevens Institute

of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, where Hogan is the director of the Center for Science

Writings. Wilson had just flown in from Washington, where earlier in the day he had made a big

announcement, here's an edited version

of the conversation that Wilson had with Horgan.

Let me say about this morning, it's this, this, in my long career, this is the one morning when I think I took part in making history. Now,

that sounds like hyperbole, but I'm going to justify that in a moment. We met in the National

Press Club for a press release to announce the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life. And this has been building for some time.

And I'm very pleased that an article that I wrote,

writing and science, in trends in ecology and evolution in 03,

was the start of this notion, the encyclopedia of life.

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