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Using Evolutionary Science To Change Behaviour - Professor David Sloan Wilson

The Weekend University

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Evolution Is a Game of Monopoly

Evolution is like my monopoly examples. A natural selection at the smallest scale takes place among individuals within single socially act in groups, like the single game of monopoly. And it results in disruptive self seeking behavior. The cooperator in a single group is vulnerable to free riding and exploitation by other members of the group. We need to add a layer of competition, o between group, competition. In order to explain anything that we can call pro social, extending yourselvs for the benefit of others or for one's groups as a whole, we can only explain that by a layer of between groups, a competition. So team work does not come for free. It is not the case that evolution

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