Inside the Mind of Rowan Hooper: The Shocking Truth Behind Togetherness Revealed
HMM: This is a question I ask everyone I interview for Hippocampus. When you’re ready to share a piece of writing, who is your first reader?
RH: My wife.
HMM: Why?
RH: Because she is super well-read and perceptive, but also she’s not a scientist by background yet she has a really deep understanding of science and can just say, “This doesn’t feel right,” or else, encourage me, or say, “I’d do it like this.”
HMM: Is there anything else you’d like to share?
RH: We covered a lot of the things I’m trying to get across in the book—the idea that symbiosis is not this niche field topic, but that it’s absolutely everywhere and it’s really been important to shaping the evolution of life on the planet and the operation of all ecosystems on the planet. And we need to understand it in order to get to a sustainable place. It’s not just intellectually interesting, it’s also really important practically that we get this right. And as we said at the beginning, we’ve been so focused on competition and people have used Darwinism as support for capitalism, but it isn’t. I want to correct that use of Darwinism, because as we’ve said, it’s not just about competition, it’s about symbiosis as well.
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