Submitted by Naokotani in Anarcho_communism
I recently read Kropotikin's "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution" after coming across an article by Stephen Jay Gould called "Kropotikin Was No Crackpot."
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/stephen-jay-gould-kropotkin-was-no-crackpot.pdf
In that article, he mentions that the science isn't quite on in Mutual aid, I believe in regards to his lack of evidence of how cooperation increases individual reproductive fitness, while presenting evidence of how it increases the fitness of the species as a whole.
Does this really matter? Could the book not fairly easily be updated to give some explanation of how these traits are transmitted in a more modern way?
squirrels wrote
Gould wrote about Kropotkin?! I know that might not matter to most, but since Gould was a massive influence on me... thank you. I am going to read this and hold it close to my heart.