.@Outsideness ...pathological. they'd just be no good in the middle of the desert.
@Outsideness right. but you're claiming that the AVERAGE, typical set of behaviors of nw euro pops is diseased or abnormal or pathological.
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@hbdchick A biological population (of whatever size) tending to extinction is TYPICALLY pathological, on simple Darwinian grounds. -
@Outsideness no. not typically. that's just evolution by natural selection. nothing pathological (abnormal, diseased, etc.) about it. -
@hbdchick@Outsideness The malaria parasite is a product of evolution. Does that mean that there's nothing pathological about malaria? No. -
@PBarbicane altruism is a behavioral trait. plasmodium falciparum is an organism.@Outsideness -
@PBarbicane i didn't say that evolution can't result in organisms that can cause pathologies. obviously it can! just the *average*... -
@PBarbicane ...set of behavioral traits in an entire population are not pathological. -
@hbdchick they could be if they're under the influence of something not present in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. - 2 more replies
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