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The Dharma of Bob 8: A Cosmic View of Our Situation (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)
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Is There a Kind of Altruism in the Genetic Level?
If you've got three strands of identical, say, r and a, floating around in the primordial ooze, any three strands of genetic information will be favored by natural selection. If jeans happen to arise, that that foster behaviors that are self sacrificial in the literal sense, like this strand dies, but it means these two strands live, that will be favored. I'm not talking about any altruism in the subjective sense. i'm just saying, any behavior that happens to have the effect of saving copies of a, you know, identical copies of this, those will be favoredby natural acion. It's probably not surprising that you get a species as intelligent as us
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