Reaction Paper - a Reaction to the Speaker David Wilson, who Gave a Guest Lecture Promoting the Concepts within His New Book

"Darwin's Cathedral: evolution, religion, and the nature of society" - David Wilson
The speaker, David Sloan Wilson, believes that societies function as single organisms, and morality and religion biologically and culturally evolved adaptations that enable human groups to function as single units rather than an assortment of individual unites. His lecture was a poor attempt to explain group selection, which is selection for a characteristic specifically because the characteristics enhance the reproductive success of the group as a whole, rather than solely the individual.
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