The Social Responsibility in Teaching Sociobiology

Although the study of evolution is, in my opinion, one of the most exciting and illuminating of all intellectual enterprises, there is at the same time, and not just in my opinion, something dark about the implications of natural selection for our own behavior. Full Story »

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by Fabrice Florin - Nov. 18, 2006

A bit academic for the general public, but informative nevertheless, if you're interested in the topic. It's clearly an important topic, but the author does not make it easily understandable by a broad audience.

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by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 16, 2006
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by Marius Chitosca - Nov. 18, 2006

Wonderful and well documented, but short incursion into an otherwise extensive relation between the "truths" of sociobiology and those of ethics -- also comprised in different religions -- with implications in the teen education policies. The main idea is that the present education, by setting presumably false hopes concerning human morality, is inconsistent with the ideas of sociobiology, that promote at least a moderate selfishness of the genes. Altruism is seen as a behavior ... More »

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