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Wilson revisits group selection Edward O. Wilson’s: The social conquest of earth, Liveright Publishing/W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2012, 330 pp, $27.95 (Hardcover)

Benjamin E. Hardisty1 - Personal Name

There are three kinds of ‘great idea’ books. There are books that proclaim themselves
revolutionary; for example, A New Kind of Science (Wolfram 2002) but typically
turn out to be old ideas proclaimed to be brand new. There are books that make
no claim to their own importance, but are nonetheless game changing; for example,
Evolution and the Theory of Games (Maynard Smith 1982). Finally, there are books
that present conjecture as fact and try to persuade readers that consensus exists when
in fact consensus does not exist. This third category is the one that E.O. Wilson’s The
Social Conquest of Earth falls into.
Wilson purports to provide an overview of several of the most important events
in the history of life on Earth but instead performs an ingenious sleight of hand by
presenting the field of social biology as having recently been revolutionized by himself
and a small number of colleagues. The book is admirably written, but misleading in
that Wilson presents recent work challenging the hypothesis of kin selection as both
irrefutable and widely accepted by social biologists. In particular, Wilson claims that
biologists have realized kin selection is incorrect as an explanation for the evolution
of sterile helper castes in social insects. In other words, Wilson is preaching consensus
that does not yet exist.
First, the good news. What I found compelling about the book was Wilson’s argument
that life-long social living is the innovation that eventually allowed humans
to flourish. As he notes, humans and social insects have a lot in common and both
are found virtually everywhere on Earth, living in and dominating diverse terrestrial
ecosystems. Having argued myself that humans are a eusocial species (also see Foster
and Ratnieks 2005, Hardisty and Cassill 2010), I agree with Wilson’s claim that our

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