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What Happened to Selfish Genes? with J. Arvid Agren

This View of Life

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Is There a Difference Between the Fitness Differences and the Gene's?

Theory of inclusive fitness is such that it works. It just becomes a maximizer on the kind of certain assumptions and there are these the basic what is sent, you should be comfortable with those assumptions. In multi-level selection terms, let's imagine it all depends on where the fitness differences are. There's no way to explain myotic drive or cancer as fitness maximizing at the individual level. Just can't do it. You have to ignore that category in order to make progress with inclusive fitness theory. Now if you go to selfish gene theory, you can do it because selfish gene theory is basically averaging fitness across all contexts. And now when we try to portray that in terms of inclusive

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