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Using Evolutionary Science To Change Behaviour - Professor David Sloan Wilson

The Weekend University

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Genetic Evolution, Artificial Selection, Selection Forces, Selection by Consequences

Group rewards individuals purely for their productivity. But at some point, what that system is going to select are individuals or social strategies by flexible individuals choosing social strategies on the basis of consequences. So genetic evolution has not taken place, but something similar has, something similar has. And tony biglan, who is your next speaker, has extensively documented this kind of pathological outcome in for topics such as the tobacco industry, the big farmer, the food industry, the arms industry. All othe pathologies, basic extreme inequality we can explain not by bad people, but by selection by consequences and cultural selection forces.

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