[ExI] New Scientist and Darwin.

[hkhenson]

At 04:30 AM 2/1/2009, Tom Nowell wrote:

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>The article ends by saying Darwin was as wrong as Isaac Newton - 
>both made colossal intellectual leaps that revolutionised their 
>field, but studies made using their ideas have since revealed deeper 
>levels of complexity underlying things.

Darwin was aware that his theory had problems, particularly those of 
"altruistic" behavior such as you see in social insects.

It was over a hundred years before 
Hamilton  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Hamilton solved the problem.

If you are not already up on this topic, it is the basis for most 
modern thinking about evolution.

Keith