Edward Wilson's radical paper on how insect and human societies work had the likes of Richard Dawkins lining up to shoot him down. Here he defends his long career

It's not every day, or even every few decades, that a scientist tears up the dominant interpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution, but two years ago that's what the eminent biologist Edward Wilson and two of his Harvard colleagues did. In a controversial paper that made the cover of the journal Nature, they

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