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Warwick Collins
Warwick Collins (born 14 December 1948 - 10 February 2013) was a British novelist,〔Foreman, Amanda, (Love and Philosophy – with a Pinch of Salt ) 2000, amandaforeman.com. Retrieved February 2011〕 screenwriter, yacht designer,〔(Revolution? So Here is Something to Think about.... ) October 2010, sailinganarchy.com〕 and evolutionary theorist.
Collins was born in Johannesburg to English-speaking parents. His father, Robin Collins, was a novelist who wrote under the nom-de-plume Robin Cranford. Robin Collins's novels were written from a liberal perspective and one of them, ''My City Fears Tomorrow'', was banned by the South African apartheid regime. When Warwick Collins was eleven, his family moved to England, and Collins entered The King's School, Canterbury. He continued his education at the University of Sussex, where he read Biology. He lived for many years in the Hampshire town of Lymington where he set two of his novels.
His early poetry was featured in ''Encounter'' between 1968 and 1971.
==A Silent Gene Theory of Evolution==
Collins studied biology at Sussex University, where his tutor was the leading theoretical biologist John Maynard Smith. In 1975 Collins voiced to Maynard Smith the view that natural selection could not drive evolution because it always acted to reduce variation in favour of an optimum type for any environment, whereas the central story of evolution was that of increasing variation and complexity. Collins quoted Darwin in ''The Origin of Species'' ("... unless profitable variations do occur, natural selection can do nothing."), and argued that if variation must always occur before natural selection can act, then variation, and not natural selection, drives evolution. He asked Maynard Smith whether he could search for a "strong" theory of variation. Maynard Smith warned Collins that he could not support his efforts to pursue a rival theory to the theory that natural selection drives evolution. Collins replied that he thought the object of science was to question and examine everything, including hallowed theories such as the theory of natural selection. Maynard Smith asserted that, on the contrary, the strength of science was its capacity to agree on certain principles, and act collectively to pursue agreed aims. This difference of view with his tutor made Collins give up his scientific career and pursue other interests instead.
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