Annual Luckow Family Lecture: Dr. Rob Nixon on "The Less Selfish Gene"

 On Tuesday, Dr. Rob Nixon, professor in the Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University, delivered Villanova English's Annual Luckow Family Lecture: "The Less Selfish Gene: Forest Altruism, Neoliberalism, and the Tree of Life.". About 85 students and faculty attended the lecture, delivered by Zoom, which was followed by a lively Q & A. In his talk, Dr. Nixon argued that the recent surge of interest in popular science writing about forest ecosystems and plant communication reflects public curiosity in models of the natural world and modes of flourishing opposed to the egotism and individualism popularized by neoliberalism.