Sociobiology, the discipline founded on Darwin's theory of group evolution, is in theoretical disarray. In a new article evolutionary scientists usher in a new era in evolutionary science. "Although a ...

Charles Darwin and natural selection -- Social insects, superorganisms, and mutual aid -- Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards -- Theory development -- Animal dispersion -- Critique of Wynne-Edwards -- The new ...

The authors "seem to be more concerned about disproving group selectionists than about parasite virulence," he said. The mathematics underlying both group selection and individual-level selection have ...

Review of A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species. By Robert Boyd. Princeton University Press. 229 pp. $27.95. Charles Darwin’s theories have stood the test of time. In The ...

“Although a high standard of morality gives but a slight or no advantage to each individual man and his children over the other men of the same tribe...an advancement in the standard of morality will ...