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by Massimo Pigliucci
Here is a Roman joke: Two old friends who haven’t seen each other in a while happen to meet in the street. One says to the other: “Oh, hi! I thought you were dead!”
“What on earth makes you say so?”
“Well, all of a sudden people were speaking well of you …”
That joke came to my mind when I read three short tributes to biologist E.O. Wilson in Skeptical Inquirer (May/June 2022). Wilson passed away on December 26, 2021, at age ninety-two. The tributes are by evolutionary biologist and science popularizer Richard Dawkins, evolutionary developmental biologist Sean B. Carroll, and cognitive linguist Steven Pinker. Predictably, all three portraits are very positive. Just as predictably, they are somewhat flawed.
Let me first acknowledge where I agree with Dawkins, Carroll, and Pinker. Wilson, whom I’ve met a few times during my career as an evolutionary biologist first…
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Dear Tim,
Please pardon me, for I have given you the wrong link. The said post entitled “We have Paleolithic Emotions; Medieval Institutions; and God-like Technology” is published at
https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2021/12/31/we-have-paleolithic-emotions-medieval-institutions-and-god-like-technology/
This post is academically written and quite expansive.
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle
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