2/ self-interest, competition, and cooperation of these bits, complex and intelligent life formed. Darwinian competition, at the gene,
1/ Biology is, broadly speaking, the story of bits of DNA maximizing their survival and replication using various strategies. Through the
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3/ individual, and group levels--as unpleasant as it may be--is inescapable. Group cooperation and intergroup competition are important
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4/ evolutionary strategies, and we can easily observe them in ant colonies. It is reasonable to step back and say that in order to increase
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5/ competition and advancement, all groups should advance their own interests. However, an important part of advancing your own group's
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6/ interest is making sure that others are not cooperating against you--in other words, saying that everyone should advance their group
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7/ interests is not actually in the interest of you and your group (ignoring meta strategies). In general, what we should expect to see is
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8/ people saying that individuals within their group should cooperate while individuals within all other groups should not cooperate with
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9/ each other--in group preference for me, antidiscrimination for you.
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@HbdNrx at least the dawkins narrative of biology describes this -
@soapjackal Dawkins is correct about that -
@HbdNrx I'm an 'evolution of evolutionary mechanism' kind of guy not an 'anti-evolution' one for the record. -
@HbdNrx a populations alleles do change over time.
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