The deathbed of a Altruist
The lonely death and strange life of George Price, a forgotten founder of Selfish Genery.
The Birth of the Selfish Gene
The phrase emerges from its mathematical burrows in Oxford and, breeding wildly, sets off to conquer the world. Richard Dawkins, his strengths and weaknesses.
Machiavelli among the Entomologists
Human sociobiology emerges in Harvard, from a study of ants. Ed Wilson, Steve Gould, Richard Lewontin.
Marxists at the Museum
The campaign against human sociobiology emerges, also at Harvard. Bitter conflicts.
Some types of Selfishness
Philosophers notice the Selfish gene; a book review that festered for twenty years; mother love and academic hatred. Mary Midgley and Richard Dawkins
Primitive Combat
Is war the natural state of the primitive people, as it clearly is of academics? Elaine Morgan and the Aquatic Ape theory as an example of adaptationist reasoning
Sociobiology resurgent
After twenty years, how much is true? Why is it so hard to do evolutionary psychology well, and so easy and so much fun to do it badly? Tooby, Cosmides; Wilson, Daly: all those girls (and their husbands).
Enter the Meme
Why and how there couldn't be a science of memetics. Dan Dennett, Sue Blackmore, Dan Sperber.
And the meme raths outgrabe
Religion as the greatest explanatory failure of human sociobiology and why this failure matters so much. Nick Humphrey pilloried for a silly lecture.
Replication is not enough
Why and how you could have a theory of memetics, if not a science of it. David Hull. Why this wouldn't be very satisfying. The limits of selfish genery. A return to close on George Price's fatal dilemma.