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March 26, 2015

Is blood really thicker than water
St. Louis MO (SPX) Mar 26, 2015
It isn't that often that a scientific controversy is featured in the New Yorker, but in 2012 an article titled "Kin and Kind" describing a tempest over a biological theory appeared in its pages. The tempest was provoked by an article in Nature. Written by Harvard mathematicians Martin A. Nowak and Corina E. Tarnita and Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, it questioned the validity of the theory of inclusive fitness. Inclusive fitness theory, proposed by British biologist W. D. Hamilton in 1964, ex ... read more

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