Participation in evolution and sustainability

The modern synthesis of genetics with evolution slanted our understanding of evolution and of ourselves by rejecting Darwin’s view of animals as participating in their own evolution. Defining evolution in terms of genetics, the modern synthesis indulges excessive individualism and distorted self‐images as self‐made. At the same time, such gene‐centred thought, evoking images of master molecules making us who we are, hollows out volition and so...