NICOLAS BERTHET E

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An extreme case would be Haldane’s heroism biased toward a brother. The result would be nepotism, resulting in a Darwinian advantage over others in the group. But where does that lead an evolving population? As the collateral-favoring genes spread, the group would change into an ensemble not of competing individuals and their offspring, but of an ensemble of parallel competing extended families. To achieve group-wide altruism, cooperation, and division of labor, in other words organized societies, requires a different level of natural selection. That level is group selection.
The Meaning of Human Existence
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