Not sure how Salter is allegedly wrong here: https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Interests-Ethnicity-Humanity-Migration/dp/1412805961 … https://twitter.com/YeyoZa/status/861879639291162624 …
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He's right. A lot of people on the alt-right believe in group selection and race-based altruism.
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Sorry, I meant that Yeyo is right, not Salter. Salter is probably wrong, but I haven't read the book.
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I suppose that one idea pointed out in the links @BioDeterminist just put in this thread is that ethnocentrism can arise without "altruism"
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Altruism in the sense of reducing one's own personal fitness in favor of others.
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But ethnocentric groups do outcompete non-ethnocentric groups, so it seems to me that we have group selection in that way, even without
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You assume group selection in the wording. I think the historical evidence shows that less tribal societies are more successful.
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The Roman Empire was multi-ethnic. Islam is not racially or ethnically tribal, although it imposes itself on people that are.
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The Latin Americans are mostly descended from native women who had sex with Spanish men -- that was a good reproductive strategy.
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Yes, very successful strategy
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