(2008-07-22) Wilson Group Evolution

E O Wilson believes in multi-level Evolution. In his 1998 book "ConsilIence," he proposed that many human activities, from economics to morality, needed to be temporarily removed from the hands of the reigning specialists and given to biologists to work out a proper evolutionary foundation... Morality and Religion, he suspects, are traits based on group selection. "Groups with men of quality - brave, strong, Innovative, smart and altruistic - would tend to prevail, as Charles Darwin said, over those groups that do not have those qualities so well developed," Dr. Wilson said... His admiration for the political Courage of the Harvard faculty is not without limits; many colleagues told him they supported him, but all did so privately. Academic biologists are still so afraid of inciting similar attacks that they practice sociobiology under other names, like Evolutionary Psychology.