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

The Joe Walker Podcast

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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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