Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!laura From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Altruism vs morality Message-ID: <769@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Jul-83 05:02:02 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsstat.769 Posted: Sat Jul 9 05:02:02 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jul-83 10:24:11 EDT References: houti.330, <267@isrnix.UUCP> Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada Lines: 18 Some people have been arguing about altruism and biology and Goedel and all storts of things. For those of you who are reading this, and are interested in the whole issue, "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins is a short, easy-to-read book which was written to explain "altruism" and "apparant altruism" and "apparant selfishness" from a BIOLOGICAL (as opposed to political or philosophical) basis. It is very good reading. It also is the popular version of a wider-reaching theory called SOCIOBIOLOGY, whose most reknowned leader is Wilson. He has written several books and articles about Sociobiology, of which the longest and best known are "On Human Nature" and "Sociobiology". Both of these books are harder reading, but (in my opinion) well worth it. Laura Creighton utzoo!utcsstat!laura