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1 " Page 43:Natural selection is a multilevel process that operates among groups in addition to among individuals within groups. Any unit becomes endowed with the properties inherent in the word organism to the degree that it is a unit of selection. The history of life on earth has been marked by many transitions from groups of organisms to groups as organisms. Organismic groups achieve their unity with mechanisms that suppress selection within without themselves being overtly altruistic. Human evolution falls within the paradigm of multilevel selection and the major transitions of life. Moral systems provide many of the mechanisms that enable human groups to function as adaptive units. "
― David Sloan Wilson , Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
2 " Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary. "
― David Sloan Wilson
3 " It is always necessary to jump up and down on the scaffold of knowledge to make sure it is solid. If you are skeptical about a scientific claim, then jump up and down on it as hard as you can until you expose a weakness or convince yourself that it is solid. "
― David Sloan Wilson , The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time
4 " I only do what only I can do. "
5 " Art is the essential medium for the communication of a moral ideal. "
