This document summarizes a scholar's challenge to E.O. Wilson's ideas about human nature in his book On Human Nature. The scholar questions whether Wilson sufficiently considers the role of culture and nurture versus nature alone. The scholar also speculates that repeated ice ages may have necessitated human genetic and cultural co-evolution, including the development of bipedalism in early human tribes for survival. The document references debates around nature versus nurture, artistic creation versus scientific thinking, and includes images related to human behaviors, cultures, and evolution.

1. A Scholar’s Challenge to W.O. Wilson’s On Human Nature
Sophia Carson, Post-Doc
University by the Blue Ridge Mt.
“Path to overcoming
sociobiology of
human nature,
connecting past,
present, & future ? “
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

2. Dr. W. O. Wilson,
humanist,
professor &
author of non-
fiction classic,
On Human
Nature,
Harvard
University Press,
1978
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

3. One of B. F. Skinner’s Pigeons In Training
(During World War II)

5. Cosmic Dance: Mystic Voices
A Celtic-Om Shanti Dialogue
Moderator:
Dr. Mary Carson
Theoretical Physicist
It is possible to believe that
all that the human mind
has ever accomplished is
but the dream before the
awakening….
H.G.Wells
(Nature 65, 1902) An Image
Greek Vase 300 BC
Gandhara Art
Fused East/West
326 BC

6. “This discipline (sociobiology) alone addresses in concrete terms the heart
of social organization, from communication and nest construction to caste
and division of labor. The final element in the mix is evolution….”
E. O. Wilson
Weaver Ants
cooperating for “nest
construction”
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

7. Ethologists are typically interested in a behavioral
process rather than in a particular animal group and
often study one type of behavior (e.g. aggression) in a
number of unrelated animals.
A highly social
endangered mammal
Endangered due to
destruction of woods
& forestland in America
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

8. “Put together, population
biology, ethology, and
evolutionary theory
form the content of the new
discipline of sociobiology,
which I was to define in 1975
as the systematic study of the
biological basis of social
behavior and of the
organization of complex
societies.” E.O. Wilson
Page 300, Naturalist
Dolphines are highly “social”
animals. They are “mammals” like
elephants, bats and humans
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

9. Ethologists are typically interested in a
behavioral process rather than in a particular
animal group and often study one type of
behavior (e.g. aggression) in a number of
unrelated animals.
An endangered culture
Endangered due to
history & destruction
of woods
& forestland in America
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

10. Butterfly
Color Variations
Natural Evolution
(Not culture )
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation
Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

12. One of B. F. Skinner’s Pigeons In Training

13. Cosmic Dance: Mystic Voices
East meet West : Heritage bridge to arts & science
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

14. “…..insect colony is a population.
Some colonies like the queen and 20
million workforce of the African driver
ant, have more inhabitants than entire
countries”
Page 300, Naturalist Edward O. Wilson
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

15. Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

16. Ethologists are typically interested in a
behavioral process rather than in a particular
animal group and often study one type of
behavior (e.g. aggression) in a number of
unrelated animals.
A highly social
endangered mammal
Endangered due to
destruction of woods
& forestland in America

18. Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation
Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

21. Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

23. Lesson of Great Minds & Cultures:
A “Nature vs Nurture” Challenge To W.O. Wilson’s Human Nature
“Wilson speculates that repeated ice age
on earth’s past stimulated man’s
bioculture co-evolution. Did the receding
ice age in African savannah necessitate
our one-specie genetic survival & the
biogrammer of bipedal tribal hunter-
gatherer ?”
Sophia Carson, Post-Doc
University by the Blue Ridge Mt.
Dr. W. O. Wilson,
humanist, professor &
author of non-fiction
classic,
On Human Nature,
Harvard University
Press, 1978
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

25. Cosmic Dance: Mystic Voices
A Celtic-Om Shanti Dialogue
“My daughter Radha
playing the flute”
Celtic Team: Sophia Carson, post-doc at the
university by the Chesapeake Bay”
“I want to tell you about my search
for the mind of God
through theoretical physics “
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin

26. Dr. W. O. Wilson,
humanist,
professor &
author of non-
fiction classic,
On Human
Nature,
Harvard
University Press,
1978
Nature vs Nurture debate
Artistic Creation Vs Scientific Thinking
Café Twin