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On Ayn Rand, Cooperation, And Successful Societies - David Sloan Wilson

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Virtue

Darwin realized that he could not explain all of the behaviors associated with virtue because of their vulnerability to evil. So there was a process of selection operating between individuals within a given social group, but also between social groups. And there was the force that could explain the evolution of goodness. But really multi-level selection is so simple that I think I just succeeded in explaining it.

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