Comments on: No, Really; Group Selection Doesn’t Work.

By: K

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:29:04 +0000

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By: K

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:09:02 +0000

“I would think it should also predict Communism would work out better than it tends to, or that people would really love to pay their taxes.” Actually Communism has little to do with altruism and more with fascism. Socialism works very well and I really like to pay my taxes, because that is how all those kids with cancer get treatment etc.

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5 Weak Ideas About The Origin Of Homosexuality: A Reply | Pop Psychology — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:27:38 +0000

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The Tension Between Theory And Reality | Pop Psychology — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:49:08 +0000

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By: No, Really; Group Selection Still Doesn’t Work | Pop Psychology

No, Really; Group Selection Still Doesn’t Work | Pop Psychology — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:14:51 +0000

[...] Back in May, I posed a question concerning why an organism would want to be a member of group: on the one hand, an organism might want to join a group because, ultimately, that organism calculates that joining a group would likely lead to benefits for itself that the organism would not otherwise obtain; in other words, organisms would want to join a group for selfish reasons. On the other hand, an organism might want to join a group in order to deliver benefits to the entire group, not just themselves. In this latter case, the organism would be joining the group for, more or less, altruistic reasons. For reasons that escape my current understanding, there are people who continue to endorse the second reason for group-joining as plausible, despite it being anathema to everything we currently know about how evolution works. [...]