Josh Farley: "The Past, Present, and Future of Human Cooperation"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Evolution of Cooperativeness and Competition
The key punch line of a multi level selection is that within a group, the individual who is most selfish is likely to get benefits from the other group members without giving anything back. But the group that is more co operative will out compete other groups. And so the group with the more co operative individuals passes on its chens and its culture. So it really explains a lot about the memetic tribes that we see in our culture to day.
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