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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... You've now said you disagree with the thesis, so we've moved on.
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My original response to you was just pointing out how "Social Darwinism" was being used by McCloskey, as it is commonly used, to suggest a normative position about social systems premised on the idea of group selection
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