[ExI] Ants for spike! Dawkins and Wilson.

[Keith Henson]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:00 AM,  < Robert Masters <rob4332000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Keith Henson wrote:
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> <<There is no logical way for biological evolution to take place at any level above the gene.
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> 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:
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> http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/522809
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> For an "abridged, edited" and somewhat less technical version of the two Wilsons' argument, go to D.S. Wilson's homepage--
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> http://evolution.binghamton.edu/dswilson/publications.html
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> --and click on the third article listed ("Survival of the Selfless," NEW SCIENTIST, Nov. 2007).
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> Comments?

I read this when it came out, and no, it does not overturn the central
dogma of where evolution occurs.  If you think it does, please
explain.

Keith