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The Evolution Of A Renegade - David Sloan Wilson

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Averaging Fallacy in Altruism

The averaging fallacy is when you average the fitness of lower level units across higher level units. It's a very useful thing to do because it predicts what ultimately is going to evolve. But just don't call it an argument against group selection, says David Wheeler.

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