The Evolution Of A Renegade - David Sloan Wilson
The Joe Walker Podcast
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The Individualistic Perspective and Evolutionary Biology
The greatest intellectual revolution of the century is to tell us that everything that we associate with morality can be understood as a form of self-interest. So there you have the individualistic perspective in full swing, and what I find so remarkable is that if we place that against functionalism, it's no longer axiomatic. We could actually, on a case-by-case basis, look at some product of evolution, and say this deserves to be called an individual level adaptation. That means it’s no longerAxiomatic, and that is, I think, a very important point to me.
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