Dawkins’ Selfish Gene has defined how we think about evolution. But now the new science of epigenetics suggests culture and the environment can play a part. Is the age of the selfish gene over? Do we need a new story to replace the survival of the fittest, or is Darwin’s essential insight secure?
A dialogue at the 2015 "How The Light Gets In" Festival, at Hay-on-Wye, with psychologist Oliver Scott Curry, neo-Lamarckian and author of Evolution in Four Dimensions Eva Jablonka, and biologist Rupert Sheldrake. From iai, The Institute of Art and Ideas Philosophy for our times: cutting edge debates and talks from the world's leading thinkers.
Rupert's Hay Festival Videos
IAI – The Institute of Art and Ideas
- Philosophy and Psychedelics with Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
- Debate with Massimo Pigliucci on Evidence & Skepticism in Science
- Missing Evidence - Can Theories Work Without Evidence?
- Beyond the Machine: Metaphors of the Body
- The Hidden Science of Spirituality
- Cycles of Wonder
- Making Humans
- Unnatural Laws - Are Eternal Laws an Illusion?
- The Limits of Science
- The Eureka Moment
- The Science Delusion
- Emperor's New Genes
- Is Religion Dangerous?
