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Seminal biologist Edward O Wilson has written on his “Half Earth” proposal, an “achievable plan” to stave off mass extinction by devoting half the surface of the earth completely to nature.
Liam Young • Planet City
“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”
— E. O. Wilson (1929 - 2021)
The neo-Darwinian perspective, which still dominates the popular understanding of biology, isolates individual organisms or genes from the context of the living matrix that sustains them. Scarcity, competition and individual success are seen as the main drivers of evolution. This is an outdated perspective, based on outdated metaphors like Richard
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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Edward O. Wilson, “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”