Week One
Wilson on Charlie Rose – Total Bullshit (not all his fault)
Wilson on the future, especially the brain and GMOs and robots (what?)
Wilson on DC and the Trouble with Fishing (No See, Look)
Wilson on Ants and the German dude
Week Two
Charles Darwin’s Complete Publications, Private Papers and Manuscripts, and a Bunch Else
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, pp. 459-490
(or, you can use this one: Darwin’s “Recapitulation and Conclusion” to his Origin)
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, pp. 34-106
Week Three
T. H. Huxley, Evolution and Ethics (1893-94), pp. 15-121
Petr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid (1902)
Charles Davenport, Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911)
Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics (1916)
Julian Huxley, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis (1942)
Week Four
Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, “Chapter 26: Man”, pp. 271-304
Richard Lewontin, Biology as Ideology, “Causes and their Effects,” pp. 41-57, and “A Story in Textbooks”, pp. 87-104
Week Five
E. O. Wilson, Naturalist
Week Six
E. O. Wilson, Journey to the Ants, pp. 1-27 and 175-206