“Nowak is convinced that his critics haven’t really done inclusive fitness calculations or they would understand the theory’s limitations. … To him, the letters “are the reactions of people who are clinging to an obsolete theory.”
“Raghavendra Gadagkar, an evolutionary biologist at the Centre for Ecological Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, supports Nowak. “Much of what is in the paper is correct,” he says. His own response to Nature “was not published on the grounds that I did not sufficiently disagree with the authors,” he says. Instead, he has published a commentary in Current Science, saying, “for the healthy growth of science it is useful to periodically rock the boat and when a body of knowledge grows into a large ship we need giants like Wilson to rock it.””
Gotta love a good fight! This is what science is best at – open re-evaluation of what we hold to be true. discussion.
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