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| ashu |
Posted
on 29-May-03 06:22 PM
E O Wilson -- one of my favorite scientists -- ko thoughts.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/wilson03/wilson_print.html
oohi
ashu
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| samana1 |
Posted
on 29-May-03 08:47 PM
Asu ji
you know what the best thing i like about you is that you provide us lots of information ...indeed good one...
Last time, it helped me to gather some info while i was doin proj. and the source i got was frm you.
keep it up!
samana
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| ashu |
Posted
on 30-May-03 08:43 AM
Samana1-ji,
I am happy to be of assistance to you.
I am interested in many, many things, and I like to share with you all the joy these interests bring to me.
oohi
ashu
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| KurLey |
Posted
on 30-May-03 12:56 PM
...Yeah hes the cool one of all, too bad Gould passed away last year, I'm sure he'd have something to add/ substract on this (he was used to latter on most of Wilsons views), although I consider Gould the smarter among the bio-cookies, Wilson is right on the blank slate issue. Anyhow, Sociobiology the book, has been my Bible since I got my hand on it.
thanks for the article.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 30-May-03 05:44 PM
It's worth mentioning that Stephen Jay Gould, a Marxist, gave hell to E O Wilson on the supposed implications of sociobiology in the '70s.
Gould and others had fierce debates with Wilson in the pages of The New York Review of Books. Wilson recounts all this in his autobiography "The Naturalist", a book I recommend to all.
I have always been convinced by the basic arguments of sociobology (that is: our social behaviours are shaped by millions of years of evolution), and it's good to see that Wilson's views, formerly dismissed and mired in bitter controversies, now enjoy wider support among mainstream biologists.
oohi
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