
On Ayn Rand, Cooperation, And Successful Societies - David Sloan Wilson
The Joe Walker Podcast
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The Misguidedness of Kin Selection
The idea that parents would benefit their offspring was just natural selection. But also it was about genealogical relatedness, kin selection at first was about identity by descend. It became generalized and that coefficient of relatedness could be any correlation between the phenotype of the actor and the recipient for any reason. And so it was at this point that I think that a lot of confusion, and it remains very, very confusing all the way at the top.
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