The world loved the Rainbow Nation success story and chose, along with many South Africans, to ignore that reconciliation can easily be used to justify impunity.
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green
For the evolutionary community at large, the rules governing the acceptance and rejection of group selection are not a storybook portrayal of science.
Dan Persons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
Could it just be coincidence? Could it just be that, by some random alignment of the planets, we have two films about the conflict in Northern Ireland opening on the same weekend?
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
No matter how the groups are formed, no matter how flexible the choice of behaviors, altruism is locally disadvantageous and requires higher-level selection to evolve.
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living
Richard Dawkins did not invent naïve gene selectionism but he spread it far and wide with the publication of The Selfish Gene.
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics
Even when genes function as replicators, they have no bearing upon the group selection controversy because they function as replicators regardless of which level of selection prevails.
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics
The haystack model had an enormous impact on the rejection of group selection and the conceptualization of kin selection as an alternative to group selection.
Russ Baker | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media
Official investigations of the Bush administration are on the way. Politicians will appear heroic. The media will get a hot story they won't have to do a bit of digging for. And the rest of us?
Frank Naif | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
Making sure that ordinary national security drones aren't vilified or set up to take the fall for their bosses today will strengthen tomorrow's national security.
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
By the 1960's, evolutionary theory had settled into a comfortable paradigm called the Modern Synthesis.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
It would be wrong for an outgoing President who presided over disastrous... enterprises like the torture program to unilaterally slam the door on all future investigations into that conduct.
David Sloan Wilson | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
Pre-Darwinian notions did not come to an abrupt halt with the advent of Darwin's theory. Instead, they often became repackaged in superficially Darwinian terms.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics
Criminal prosecutions of the members of the Bush administration will not enable us to do what we most need to do, which is to gain a full public understanding of what was done over the past eight years.
Yvonne Malan | Posted 11.20.2009 | World