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Fantastic.
The scope is just breath-taking. Gene–culture coevolution has some powerful transdisciplinary potential within anthropology has a whole. Although, needs more testing with real ethnographic data, to assert how good it is compared to ruling paradigms in sociocultural 'sciences'. But the examples Wilson is using are very carefully chosen and fit well in his biocultural descriptions.

Here Wilson stops with the eussocial invertebrates. It was an amazing journey, disproving inclusive finess and kinship selection. After defending the more parsimonious multilevel selection, with individual and group as main forms, Wilson describes a new model for the origin of eusocial creatures. Now the rest of the book will be dedicated to human societies and culture. I hope he can deliver as well in this subject.

Wilson is going back and forth between explaining human societies and eusocial insects. He is at his best when he speaks about insects, no doubts here, and the info he provides is both fascinating and enlightening. All the hierarchies, specializations, etc. are mind-blowing, reading the world top expert sharing how he learned about this issues sure is million times better than learning them any other way.

Pág. 89 tem um resumo de características únicas dos humanos.

sob a luz*. [do update anterior]

MLS é fascinante, é impraticável ver evolução em espécieis altamente sociais sem selecção grupo, esta proposta teórica de selecção a vários níveis, encaixa a menosprezada selecção de grupo com as restantes (i.e. parentesco não explica altruísmo, actos heróicos). Transformando no alvo da selecção natural, não só o gene, mas um gradiente de micro a macroestruturas.

sob a luz*. [do update anterior]

MLS é fascinante, é inevitável ver evolução em espécieis altamente sociais sem selecção grupo, esta proposta teórica de selecção a vários níveis encaixa-a com os restantes. Fazendo a de alvo da selecção um gradiente de micro a macroestruturas.