Jean Lievens: Can Evolution Explain Kindness? Are Political, Social, & Economic Altruism Important?
The hard problem: Tom Stoppard on the limits of what science can explain Can evolution explain acts of kindness, and morality? We arranged a debate between a sceptical Tom Stoppard and the evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson. Stuart Jeffries acted as referee selfishness beats altruism within groups, but altruistic groups beat selfish ones