2003-07-25
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Life | 'I wanted to show how niceness evolves'David Sloan Wilson says plankton can tell us a lot about God and human morality. By Andrew Brown The basis on which this argument rests is almost as simple as natural selection itself, says Wilson: "The fundamental problem of social life is that selfishness beats altruism within a group. But altruistic groups trump selfish groups. It's amazing that you can take such a controversial theory and describe it in two sentences." ... ... "One point is just how radically different this is to other approaches to religion and science," he says. "It completely turns creationism on its head. It says there is a scientific explanation for creationism."
