'I think if we can understand who we really are then we can reach a much better world' … Harvard biologist Professor Edward Wilson. Photograph: Rick Friedman for the Guardian It's not every day, or even every few decades, that a scientist tears up the dominant interpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution, but two years ago that's what the eminent biologist Edward Wilson and two of his Harvard colleagues did. In a controversial paper that made the cover of the journal Nature, they dismissed the widely accepted, half-century-old theory of "kin selection" and proposed a different explanation of the advanced social behaviour of insects to take its place – a revamped version of something...
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