Science and Religion Archives: Edward O. Wilson
Having extensively researched aspects of evolutionary theory, including the work of Edward O. Wilson, for my Durham master’s thesis, I chose to devote my first assessable essay for the MSt in Science and Religion at the University of Oxford (2016) to making an original contribution to understanding Wilson’s intellectual biography. An important figure in evolutionary theory, Wilson was among the first to apply evolutionary theory to social and cultural contexts without degenerating into social Darwinism. People know him as the…