[ExI] Ants for spike!

[Robert Masters]

Keith Henson wrote:

<<There is no logical way for biological evolution to take place at any level above the gene.

This is the central dogma of St. Dawkins.>>

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According to E.O. Wilson (founder of sociobiology) and David Sloan Wilson, this dogma  has been overthrown.  See their article in THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY, Dec. 2007:

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/522809

For an "abridged, edited" and somewhat less technical version of the two Wilsons' argument, go to D.S. Wilson's homepage--

http://evolution.binghamton.edu/dswilson/publications.html

--and click on the third article listed ("Survival of the Selfless," NEW SCIENTIST, Nov. 2007).

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Rob Masters







      
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