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Humans are "naturally nice" argues new research:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/02/201222023301844664.html
De Waal has beeing arguing along those lines for years, much of his work has been on cooperative/pro-social behaviour. He was always critical of the notion of 'selfish genes' and particularly objected to that loaded metaphor.
TRUE FACT I presented at the same evolution conference as him in NY a few years ago!
I like the defence of Darwin. His legacy has been abused to death by the bourgeoisie solely because his (and Alfred Russel Wallace, his mate, cannot be left out of their massive achievement) analyses completely undermined the fundamentals of bourgeois ideology - as it still does today. Both were very clear on the importance of the positive animal instincts in the development of humanity (as was Marx).
you know i'm down with that
I've changed the picture accompanying this text. People think it's better?
Good essay by Stephen Jay Gould about Kropotkin.
Kropotkin Was No Crackpot
http://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/kropotkin.htm
Think this is well worth remembering,
"Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms – if only because our species is such an insignificant latecomer in a world not constructed for us. So much the better. "