The malleability of life
It is sobering to contemplate the malleability of life. It only takes five generations to turn a population of mild-mannered chickens into a population of psychopaths. If we don’t manage evolutionary processes, they will very likely take us where we don’t want to go.
— David Sloan Wilson, 2019
From the interview “This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution”
© 2019 David Sloan Wilson
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