Posted: Feb 17, 2017 8:36 am
Oh, that guy. Yeah. Interestingly, I see the OE (Oxford [E]volutionary biologist aka Dawkins) was involved in a "furious row" with EO, back in 2012.
For any lay-spectators reading along:
[T]he row is a symptom of the long and controversial evolution of the very idea of evolution. At root it is a dispute about whether natural selection, the theory of "the survival of the fittest" first put forward by Charles Darwin in 1859, occurs only to preserve the single gene. Wilson is an advocate of "multi-level selection theory", a development of the idea of "kin selection", which holds that other biological, social and even environmental priorities may be behind the process.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jun/24/battle-of-the-professors