Wilson wanted to apply Darwin to everything from ants to humans. In response, the media embarked on a crusade to discredit him. by Peggy Sastre. Wilson had violated a serious taboo. He was saying that inequality, conflict—and even love—had a natural history. And that millennia of civilisation could not magically erase billions of years of […]

by Ed West. Dec 31, 2021 Wilson ‘became a target of vilification and harassment’, in Steven Pinker’s words. A widely-circulated article by a group of academics accused Wilson, a Democrat voter and a political moderate, of promoting theories that ‘led to the establishment of gas chambers in Nazi Germany’. … The campaign against Wilson was […]

by David Sloan Wilson. Dawkins is so intent on preserving his views on group selection that his review of Wilson’s book does not describe the main thesis of the book. Wilson claims that we are a eusocial species (which he defines in terms of cooperation and not reproductive division of labor), the primate equivalent of […]