Hi All: An article about E.O Wilson, the guru of ants and advocate of sociobiology, is in today's NY Times at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15wils.html One paragraph caught my MOQ eye: "Dr Wilson´s treatise, on the shaping of social behavior, seems likely to tread firmly into this vexed arena. Morality and religion, he suspects, are traits based on group selection. `Groups with men of quality - brave, strong, innovative, smart and altruistic -- would tend to prevail, as Darwin said, over groups that do not have those qualities so well developed, ` Dr. Wilson said." I doubt, of course, if it ever occurred to Wilson that it's Quality, not groups, that basically drives evolution although it´s right there in his quote, staring him in the face. Amazing how even celebrated intellectuals can be blinded by their self- imposed "immune systems." Regards, Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
