David Sloan Wilson: "Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Evolutionary Biology - What Is the Main Conclusion?
In the early 70s, when something called naive group selection was first prominent and then prominently discredited. The idea that something might evolve for the good of the group had become seriously taboo along with Lamarckism. In my field of evolutionary biology, it became the theory of individual selection and selfish genes as if everything that evolved has to be explained in terms of individual self-interest. And so that became my sort of cause, the labra, that to resurrect the evolution of altruism group selection.
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