David Sloan Wilson & Razib Khan (me) on BHTV
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here . All I have to say is that 60 minutes really isn't that much time.
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Living This Way
Page 3.14 (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
When it comes to human nature, everyone's an expert—so let's argue about it, shall we? On Cognitive Daily, Dave Munger reviews an investigation into the truly fairer sex which suggests that "men are more tolerant of their friends' failings than women." Not convinced? Then counter your intuition on The Frontal Cortex, where Jonah Lehrer writes "nothing destroys a luxury brand like...
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The Faith Instinct in National Review
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
John Derbyshire has review of The Faith Instinct up. He hits the major points well. I should elaborate on something. In Darwin's Cathedral David Sloan Wilson outlines two dimensions of religion, the horizontal and the vertical. The vertical is pretty straightforward, supernatural agents and forces. The cognition of religious ideas. The horizontal is the communitarian aspect of religion which sociologists...
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A quantitative ecologist looks at world history (again)
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Doing a literature search on the Price Equation for some weblog posts I found that Peter Turchin had written a new paper on world history using Price's formalism explicitly. A quantitative ecologist by training, Turchin has already written a series of books attempting to model human history in a more formal fashion than is usually the case. Though his work has a tendency to overlap with economic history,...
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The intersection of public policy, economics, & evolution
A Blog Around The Clock (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Next Monday at NESCent : When: Monday November 16, 2009, 10-11:30am Where: NESCent, 2024 W. Main St., Durham, NC 27705, Erwin Mill Bldg, Suite A103 Directions: http://www.nescent.org/about/directions.php What do public policy and economics have to do with evolutionary theory? A lot, say participants in an upcoming meeting at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, NC. Nearly...
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Can We Talk About Science? I Mean, Really?
Thus Spake Zuska (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
You should never, ever criticize something a New Atheist says about science and religion. Never tell them maybe it's not the best idea in the world to just go on about science/evolution + religion in whatever way, at whatever time, in whatever manner, for whatever reasons. In fact, you cannot criticize the speech of New Atheists even if your goal is not to tell them to shut up, but to suggest that...
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The Unselfish Gene: Altruism and Zombies
Biology in Science Fiction (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The Unselfish Gene is the first published novel of science journalist Robert D. Burns , and it sounds like a lively mixture of pulpy science fiction-horror and genetics. The novel's blurb gives you a taste of that: It's love and terrorism in the time of cholera. In the mid-21st century, a form of bird flu has killed billions and turned most of the rest into mindless, stumbling zombie-like invalids....
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Feminism Today
Phronesisaical (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
One of those young women of the 1980s, who was contemptuous of those who warned that all the problems had not yet been solved, found the real world to be different than her preferences and is now saying we should do something about it . She has actually done rather well in that unruly real world, although her enterprise has recently collapsed. Presumably she will continue to do well, although this...
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Science is not a Religion
Newshoggers (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
By BJ Bjornson Even if there are those who occasionally treat it that way. The title refers to the introductory post of David Sloan Wilson’s at Scienceblogs, “Science as a Religion that Worships Truth as its God”. I have a number of critiques about the post, but none as glaring as the title and theme. The best take-down of said...
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Science is not a religion
The Island of Doubt (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Before criticizing our newest ScienceBlogger, David Sloan Wilson , who has moved here from the Huffington Post, let me add my voice to those who are welcoming the move. It is a good thing to have such an esteemed and accomplished scientist among our ranks. But like fellow blogger Eric Michael Johnson , David's first post in these parts is more than a little unsettling. Under the headline of "Goodbye...
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Congratulations To ScienceBlogs
The Intersection (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The borg just gained a lot more balance! We’re looking forward to reading David Sloan Wilson’s Evolution For Everyone. Go check out his introductory post. Here’s an excerpt: As someone who is seriously committed to studying religion from a scientific and evolutionary perspective, I’m here to say that the new atheists can’t bring themselves to accept [...]
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David Sloan Wilson on ScienceBlogs
Sandwalk (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
David Sloan Wilson has joined ScienceBlogs of the SEED consortium. You can read the new version at: Evolution for Everyone. This is going to be fun since Wilson is a strong advocate of group selection and, in addition, he is a firm opponent of the co-called "New Atheists."Here's his opening salvo in Goodbye HuffPost, Hello ScienceBlogs: Science as a Religion that Worships Truth as its God....
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Scientists of note now on ScienceBlogs
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Pamela Ronald of Tommorow's Table , author of Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food . Additionally, David Sloan Wilson , has moved his blog to ScienceBlogs . It's called Evolution for Everyone , after the book of the same name . You can read my review of his book here . Read the comments on this post...
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Welcome David Sloan Wilson and the Evolution for Everyone Blog
Greg Laden's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
David Sloan Wilson is famous for his work on group selection, a.k.a. multi-level selection, and it is quite a coup for Seed and Scienceblogs.com that he has joined our ranks. Please visit E4E and say hey. Read the comments on this post...
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Altruism, Selection, and All That
Mick Hartley (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Let’s go back to the beginning and build a new field-wide consensus based on the fact that selfishness beats altruism within groups, altruistic groups beat selfish groups, and everything else is commentary. David Sloan Wilson, one of the original proponents...