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Subject: Re: Altruism vs morality
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Date: Sat, 9-Jul-83 05:02:02 EDT
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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