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The Evolution Of A Renegade - David Sloan Wilson

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Personification

No matter how groupish humans become in their intentionality or their cognition, you can still describe that as selfish whenever it works. That's where I think that you won't find anything that you can explain in terms of group selection that cannot be explained from this other perspective. It's kind of futile, even to look, because we're describing the same thing in different ways. Yeah. What's your relationship like with Dawkins? And there's no relationship. Is it hostile? Well, I mean, it's been extremely minimal. It consists of potshots in the literature. So it's yeah, not an interesting story to tell.

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