Human exceptionalism is never more obvious than when humans are offering rational-sounding arguments against it.
Tag: kin selection
(Reformed) New Scientist 3: The Selfish Gene Is No Longer Cool
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 Read More…
Science journalist confronts evolutionary theorist with hard questions at his book talk
es, in one phrase, Mazur, author of Darwin Overthrown: Hello Mechanobiology, captures the problem: “he doesn’t define it.” Much Darwinism today survives on the fumes of “evolution” in general.
Meerkats: Another classic Darwinian just-so story
Clearly, this helping behavior is a surprise to the researchers. But if both Darwinism and their suspicions are correct, it should be a principle of some kind instead. Yet can they afford to check it out?