Extra: What If Richard Dawkins Had It All Wrong?

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Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

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🗓️ 24 February 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Forty years ago Richard Dawkins wrote the landmark book “The Selfish Gene,” where he argued that the gene is what drives evolution. But what if he got it all wrong?

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0:00.0	Support for WPR comes from St. Luke's Burthing Center, providing expectant mom's low intervention options with labor tubs, remote telemetry, and nitrous oxide.
0:10.3	More information is at slh Duluth.com slash baby.
0:15.6	Any podcast listeners, it's Anne Strain Champs from to the best of our knowledge.
0:19.9	And today we've got some ideas about evolution that might just blow your mind.
0:24.6	Okay, maybe not if you're a biologist, but let me explain.
0:28.6	What most of us learned in school is that evolution and the process of natural selection
0:34.6	gave us all these nifty biological advantages,
0:38.5	you know, like teeth and eyes and opposable thumbs,
0:42.3	not to mention a neocortex.
0:44.2	But that's just how evolution works at the most basic level.
0:47.7	At higher levels, you could say evolution also gave us Donald Trump,
0:53.1	global warming, and debates about immigration.
0:56.4	Really?
0:58.0	What's good for me can be bad for my family.
1:01.1	What's good for my family can be bad for my clan.
1:04.1	What's good for my clan can be bad for my nation.
1:07.0	What's good for a nation can be bad for the planet.
1:10.1	Okay?
1:13.6	This is David Sloan Wilson. He's an evolutionary biologist at Binghamton University
1:16.6	and a senior scholar with the Center for Humans in Nature.
1:19.6	He's a pioneer in a theory of evolution called group selection,
1:24.6	which is an idea that if you follow it all the way,
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