Talk:Social evolution

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[edit] The first sentence

13th July 2006: I have undone some of "Jarfingle"'s 10th July 2006 edit, because the first sentence did not make sense.

Update: on the 14th July, Jarfingle has reversed this edit. We are again left with a first sentence that is not a sentence.

I reverted your edits because

1) It wasn't a sentence

2) Didn't include "social evolution" in the title which my version did.

I'm afraid I don't see where you're coming from about the sentence not being sentence, looks ok to me. Feel free to edit it, but try to keep "social evolution" in there.Jarfingle 06:36, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect to Sociocultural Evolution

The removal of the content of this article and the redirection to 'sociocultural evolution' seems rather drastic. I have removed the redirect, and restored the content. Social evolution is a thriving field within the larger discipline of evolutionary biology, and it extends well beyond humans, embracing cooperatively-breeding vertebrates, insects, amoebae, bacteria and even viruses. This is not evident from the very anthropocentric article on sociocultural evolution, so I do think that social evolution requires its own article.

As an illustration, I have included a reference in the article to Steven Frank's "Foundations of social evolution", which is a highly-respected and relatively recent synthesis of this field. Frank has helpfully included a PDF of his book on his website, so I have provided a link to this here. Ayeaye 18:30, 2 Aug 2006.