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HN readers may be interested to know that Martin Nowak was involved in a huge controversy in evolutionary theory a few years ago. Led to some quite heated debat
by gautamcgoel 6y ago
HN readers may be interested to know that Martin Nowak was involved in a huge controversy in evolutionary theory a few years ago. Led to some quite heated debate as I recall. This link provides some background:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/03/researchers-challenge-e-o-wilson-over-evolutionary-theory https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/03/researchers-challeng...
- rurban 6y agoThis was not his only major accomplishment. His biggest was the abolishment of the prisoners dilemma philosophy, which dominated the right wing politics those times.
- gowld 6y agoYour strange wording turned people off. Nowak is a major figure in Prisoners Dilemma science: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#cite_ref-Hilbe2013_9-1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#cite_re...
- gowld 6y agoThe "huge controversy" was academia's version of what happens every day on Reddit and HN: a highly technical theoretical disagreement buried in a flamewar fueled by sparring bruised egos, and a media that only highlights the most antagonistic voices.