Subject: 
             [evol-psych] Richard Dawkins on 'Independent' article
        Date: 
             Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:33:30 -0000
       From: 
             "Ian Pitchford" 
 Organization: 
             http://human-nature.com/
         To: 
             




>From Richard Dawkins
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 12:56 PM

 A number of contributions to your bulletin board, amounting to a 'thread', are
in reaction to an article purporting to be by me in The Independent of
yesterday, Darwin Day 2002. This article, 'Our Big Brains can Overcome Our
Selfish Genes', was not written by me. I did not authorise it, my permission
was neither given nor sought, and I was utterly surprised to see it when I
opened my morning paper yesterday. It turns out to be a brief summary, made by
a journalist, of my Inaugural Lecture to the Environment Foundation in London
on 14th November 2001. Given that he had to achieve a tenfold reduction in the
word count he didn't do a bad job, and I can't be sure that those who
misunderstood his version won't misunderstand mine too. Nevertheless, I hope
you will allow me to mention that my own original text, 'Sustainability
Doesn't Come Naturally: A Darwinian Perspective on Values' is posted at the
Foundation's website:-

http://www.environmentfoundation.net/richard-dawkins.htm

All best wishes
Richard Dawkins