Robin Dunbar, Free Will? What’s complicated about social life?, Have societies evolved?, in his Evolution: What Everyone Needs to Know

Chapter 8

Evolution of Behavior

80. Doesn’t the theory of evolution imply that there is no such thing as free will?

Ah, the question that always comes up eventually and the one that reveals the bugbear that underlies most concerns about evolution. The short answer to this question is simply: no. As we saw in the previous question, the point of paying the …