Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:04:28 +0200 From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-skidmore.edu> Subject: Re: VS: PLC: Marxist Propaganda zatavu-AT-excite.com wrote: It would > be enough proof to get it published (and what he claims was proof enough to > get him published). Almost. Wilson, a biogeneticist, made a bid name for himself back in the 1970's for coming up with an explanation of phenomena previously troubling to evolutionists, like altruism. Wilson claimed that if you look at the passing on of genes (that's what 'fitness' is) from a communal, tribe, or larger unit perspective than the individual, then you can explain altruism -- I sacrifice my life so that bit of genetic material that I have in common with my fellow Americans will be passed on. Having written something like that that stirred up the biologists, and seems to involve 'society,' any publisher will subsequently publish pretty much any drivel he writes, *especially* if its not dry DNA stuff, but sexy-social stuff. Even his very bad poetry. Once you got a name, you got a name that sells, quality (or lack thereof) notwithstanding. Ciao, Reg --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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