Coffee Break: The Selfish Gene at 50, Big Medicine, Alt Medicine, and the End of Football

Part the First: The Selfish Gene is 50 Years Old. The mid-1970s brought forth two biology books that have had a lasting impact. The first is Sociobiology: A New Synthesis (1975) by the ant biologist E.O. Wilson of Harvard. Sociobiology is a topic for another time, and it may require me to finally get some […]

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