Dr Bruce G Charlton
reader in evolutionary psychiatry at the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and editor-in-chief of Medical Hypotheses
The theory of evolution by natural selection
I should teach the world the theory of evolution by natural selection. This theory is simple enough to be explicable in a few sentences, as in the original preface to Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, and yet it contains implications profound enough to generate major insights up to a century-and-a-half later. And the story has a long way to run. The future agenda includes exploring the ramifications of selection theory, for complex social and cultural phenomena. Bruce Charlton is author of Psychiatry and the Human Condition (buy this book from Amazon (UK) or Amazon (USA)), and coauthor of The Modernisation Imperative (buy this book from Amazon (UK) or Amazon (USA)). See his website.
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