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E. O. Wilson

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Denyse O'Leary
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April 11, 2022
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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At Skeptic mag: Colleague defends Darwinian great E. O. Wilson from accusations of racism

Denyse O'Leary
April 11, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
But again, wait. Racism wasn’t an incidental, culturally conditioned element in Rushton’s work. It appears to have been the point of it. If the great E. O. Wilson couldn’t see that, the likely explanation is that elements in Darwinism blinded him to what was pretty obvious to most of Rushton’s fellow Canadians. And why IS that? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 28, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Why punctuated equilibrium did not rescue modern evolutionary theory

Denyse O'Leary
March 28, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Re Stephen Jay Gould returning to traditional Darwinism: Didn’t E. O. Wilson try escaping the vice grip of Darwinism with “group selection” and then dramatically returning to full orthodoxy, leaving many dozens of supporters stranded? Complete academy acceptance is a powerful motivator… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 18, 2022
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E. O. Wilson and racism: The smoking gun is found

Denyse O'Leary
February 18, 2022
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Some have dismissed the findings but others say they fit a pattern. From Schulson's story: “I don’t really care that Wilson had racist ideas, because I know pretty much all of the people that I dealt with, when I was coming up through the science system, had racist ideas,” said [evolutionary biologist Joseph] Graves, who in 1988 became the first Black American to receive a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology. “Wilson was just one of many.” Oh. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 20, 2022
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Commentator Vox Day has some harsh words for E.O’ Wilson’s detractors at Scientific American

Denyse O'Leary
January 20, 2022
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
The thing is, when Wilson was alive, Darwinians denied the racism or insisted it was irrelevant and that Darwin’s sacred cause was to oppose slavery, yada yada … Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 26, 2020
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Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design
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(Reformed) New Scientist 3: The Selfish Gene Is No Longer Cool

Denyse O'Leary
September 26, 2020
Darwinism, Human evolution, Intelligent Design

Readers may recall that New Scientist published an article three days ago on 13 ways we need to “rethink the theory of nature.” Their Number 3 rethink is … Move Over, Selfish Gene. It’s replaced not just by kin selection now but by cultural group selection. Most of the article is paywalled but here’s the gist of #3: But kin selection cannot explain why humans are so nice to strangers… Some researchers think the solution lies in an idea called cultural group selection. Forget shared genes, they argue: selection can favour cooperative groups if the people within them share enough culture. The idea is controversial because to work it requires that groups remain culturally distinct. As critics point out, people Read More ›