A Calm Eye on the Selfish Gene Storm
Over at the Genetic Literacy Project, editor Kenrick Vezina offers a particularly level-headed and constructive consideration of the debate over the fitness of ...
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Dead or Alive? The Selfish Gene, Reconsidered
After my Aeon essay “Die, Selfish Gene, Die” last December sparked much discussion, the editors asked biologists Robert Sapolsky and Karen James, ge...
“Die, Selfish Gene, Die” Has Evolved
This morning Aeon published a revised version of my story “Die, Selfish Gene, Die,” which originally ran last Tuesday. The title is the same, the su...
Jerry Coyne Mucks Up and Misreads “Die, Selfish Gene, Die”
Below is a corrective comment I left below Jerry Coyne’s second of two posts (his first is here) critiquing “Die, Selfish Gene, Die,” my recen...
Seriously Tough Love: Morality the Hard Way
My post yesterday on morality and evolution drew a useful heads-up from the writer and entrepreneur Jag Bhalla: a review he wrote for The Wilson Quarterly of a ...