david sloane wilson

http://fora.tv/2010/09/29/David_Sloan_Wilson_Evolving_the_City

This is a really excellent talk by a evolutionary biologist - and well worth a watch. he talks about alturism, religion and more explaining how we are of course affected by our upbringing and circumstance, but how as young adults we are plastic and capable of change [both selfishly and altruistically] depending on environment and interaction with individuals. Really interesting, if we consider the ideas in relation to any community with which we work.
I was particularly interested in the ideas about religion and religious groups and how people involved behave in relation to liberal and non religious groups. To a non religious Darwinist, brought up by people interested in science on a farm with animals and therefore in close proximity to the normal stuff like birth, life, sex and death I'm fascinated.