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Who is Edward Wilson from The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions and what is their importance?
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This is the co-author, with Robert MacArthur of an important work on ecology called "The Theory of Island Biogeography" that proposed that the number of species in a given isolated area would approach an equilibrium where the number of new species was offset by the number of extinctions.