Darwin's Progress.(Review) From: National Review | Date: June 19, 2000| Author: Sailer, Steve | COPYRIGHT 2000 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (25th Anniversary Edition), by Edward O. Wilson (Harvard, 697 pp., $29.95)

Great fiction does not grow obsolete. Nor, in its own way, does great propaganda. In contrast, truly important scientific books render themselves obsolete by opening new fields for subsequent scholars to elaborate. Edward O. Wilson's 1975 landmark, Socio biology, which introduced neo-Darwinism to the public-and which has now been reissued to mark its 25th anniversar...

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