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17. For Depew and Weber's assertions that "there is a plurality of biological units
and levels at which and between which...evolutionary processes can act," see
David J. Depew and Bruce H. Weber, "Consequences of Nonequilibrium
Thermodynamics for Darwinism," in Bruce H. Weber, David J. Depew, and James
D. Smith, eds., Entropy, Information, and Evolution: New Perspectives on Physical
and Biological Evolution, A Bradford Book, The MIT Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1988, pp. 318, 326, 334-335, 338-339. For other tentative
approaches to these ideas, see also: Leo W. Buss, The Evolution of Individuality,
pp. viii, 171; Dorion Sagan, "What Narcissus Saw: The Oceanic 'I'/'Eye,'" in The
Reality Club, John Brockman, ed., Lynx Books, New York, 1988, pp. 204-206; and
David L. Hull, Science As a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and
Conceptual Development of Science, pp. 59, 402. Meanwhile, David P. Barash
sums up the state of mainstream scientific thought on group versus individual
selection in Sociobiology and Behavior, pp.70-79.
18. David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassman and Colin R. Hughes, "Genetic
Relatedness in Colonies of Tropical Wasps with Multiple Queens," Science,
November, 1988, pp. 1155-1157.
19. Donald T. Lunde, Murder and Madness, San Francisco Book Co., Inc., San
Francisco, 1976, p. 5.
20. Donald T. Lunde, Murder and Madness, p. 5. See also Lunde pp. 98-99.
21. Donald T. Lunde, Murder and Madness, p. 45. Martin Daly and Margo Wilson
attempt to address this problem with a model based on kin and individual selection
in "Evolutionary Social Psychology and Family Homicide" (Science, October, 1988,
pp. 519-523). Unfortunately, their hypothesis is tortuous, and assiduously avoids
the frequency with which women kill their own children. Daniel Freedman presents
a much more convincing approach in Human Sociobiology: A Holistic Approach,
The Free Press, New York, 1979, p. 22.
22. Douglass H. Morse, Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology, Harvard University
Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980, p. 123-124.
23. Donald R. Griffin, Animal Thinking, Harvard University Press, Cambridge,
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