[MD] Quality strikes again

[MarshaV]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Platt Holden" <plattholden at gmail.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:48 AM
Subject: [MD] Quality strikes again


Hi All:

An article about E.O Wilson, the guru of ants and advocate of sociobiology,
is in today's NY Times at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/science/15wils.html

One paragraph caught my MOQ eye:

"Dr Wilson´s treatise, on the shaping of social behavior, seems likely to
tread firmly into this vexed arena.  Morality and religion, he suspects,
are traits based on group selection. `Groups with men of quality - brave,
strong, innovative, smart and altruistic  -- would tend to prevail, as
Darwin said, over groups that do not have those qualities so well
developed, ` Dr. Wilson said."

I doubt, of course, if it ever occurred to Wilson that it's Quality, not
groups, that basically drives evolution although it´s right there in his
quote, staring him in the face.

Amazing how even celebrated intellectuals can be blinded by their self-
imposed "immune systems."

Regards,
Platt


Greetings Platt,

One phrase caught my MOQ eye:

"Groups with men of quality"  Men?  Men?  Give me a break!!!

Marsha