A current dramatic shift in biology (with wailing and the teeth and everything) is the fight between the people who favor group selection vs. the people who thi

A current dramatic shift in biology (with wailing and the teeth and everything) is the fight between the people who favor group selection vs. the people who think group selection is bollocks and kin selection is to be preferred. This has been going on for the last 50 years, with kin selectionists "winning", but E. O. Wilson recently published a book defending group-selection which Richard Dawkins ripped apart, so right now the fight has come back. Check out this article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sloan-wilson/richard-dawkins-edward-o-_b_1588510.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sloan-wilson/richard-daw... I think we don't see any major paradigm shifts in molecular biology (or my field, bioinformatics) because these aren't "declarative" per se, but rather "explorative" - meaning that there are no big theoretical frameworks like evolutionary biology has, but rather tiny steps of fiddling around in the dark and _then_ using theory to explain what was found.