This sounds intuitive but I think it's false. Good social arrangements can reduce evolutionary pressures (think universal health care in developed countries). There is no conservation of selection pressures between levels of selection (a contentious framework, regardless).https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/1069823163956047872 …
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How people use the term does not include a normative project or there is some strictly positive sense of the term?
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Like the idea of social selection is not itself inherently normative, obviously
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It *can* happen, but so can the opposite: as Hamilton suggested, selection militates against asabiyah, which can soften a society up for slaughter
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I think the dispute is ultimately down to the extent that human social structures are an extended phenotype vs. "software" that any group of humans could run (obviously there are elements of both, it's just how much of either)
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