E.O. Wilson’s Genesis: The Deep Origins of Societies is one of a series of short books where the author has tried to explain human societies using ideas and concepts from biology. While Wilson is to be lauded for his recent efforts to reintroduce the notions of group selection and multilevel selection, he still sustains an emphasis on only Darwinian selection and reveals a bias toward seeing selection for groups as a result of selection on individuals (as is the case for insects), perhaps entangled with selection on groups. The effort to conceive of human societies as an example of eusocieties of social insects ignores most of the sociological works on human and societal evolution; and as a result, the book is not convincing in its argument. Despite the pleasant writing style, Wilson and other biologists writing about human societies need to engage the almost 200 years of sociological work devoted to understanding the evolution of human societies.

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社会的深层起源：对EO威尔逊创世纪的评估

EO Wilson 的 Genesis: The Deep Origins of Societies 是作者试图使用生物学思想和概念解释人类社会的一系列短书之一。尽管威尔逊最近重新引入群体选择和多层次选择概念的努力值得称赞，但他仍然只强调达尔文选择，并揭示了将群体选择视为个体选择的结果的偏见（正如昆虫的情况），也许与群体选择有关。将人类社会视为社会昆虫真社会的例子的努力忽略了大多数关于人类和社会进化的社会学著作；结果，这本书的论点没有说服力。尽管写作风格令人愉悦，