Can Genes Be Any More Selfish Than Jeans?: The Misuse of a Metaphor Part 2

On The Very Idea - A Philosophy Podcast

In this final episode of a two part series, I continue looking at the intellectual debate that occured between philosopher Mary Midgely and ethologist Richard Dawkins in the pages of the journal Philosophy in the late 1970s and early 80s. I also look at the work of biologist Robert Trivers and the limits of using mathemetical models to understand biological phenomena like human evolution.