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Don’t get me wrong. I am not implying that we are driven by instinct in the manner of animals. Yet in order to understand the human condition, it is necessary to accept that we do have instincts, and will be wise to take into account our very distant ancestors, as far back and in as fine a detail as possible. History is not enough to reach this level of understanding. It stops at the dawn of literacy, where it turns the rest of the story over to the detective work of archaeology; in still deeper time the quest becomes paleontology. For the real human story, history makes no sense without prehistory, and prehistory makes no sense without biology.
-- Edward O. Wilson at The New York Times
In the world of science, a debate has been getting a little heated on a basic question of evolution. The eminent Edward O. Wilson has advanced a new model that supplants the overwhelming superiority of the long-held idea of individual selection. He argues that group-selection is just as important, calling his idea multilevel selection. Mr. Wilson is obviously not backing down.
-- Edward O. Wilson at The New York Times
In the world of science, a debate has been getting a little heated on a basic question of evolution. The eminent Edward O. Wilson has advanced a new model that supplants the overwhelming superiority of the long-held idea of individual selection. He argues that group-selection is just as important, calling his idea multilevel selection. Mr. Wilson is obviously not backing down.
