A neat framework: societal norm prevails unless BOTH partners are united against it. Within-couple cooperation is dangerous to norms! ;)
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Pair bonding/sex are innate drives. But the drive "to have children" divorced from these is so abstract that only culture can maintain it.
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@JayMan471 totally - they create a context (the pack) that acts/breeds like a superorganism. -
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@JayMan471 these tweets are baby steps in a bigger structure don't worry ;)
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@themattsimpson exactly - not arguing wolves are altruistic part-bee, just looking at the forms it takes before you get to eusociality ;)
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@sarahdoingthing @themattsimpson Eusociality takes very strict reproductive control/dominance, and a population of clones or near-clones - 2 more replies
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@themattsimpson like how much of the reproductive strategy is stored in the context versus in individual sex drives
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@themattsimpson the "strange incentives" are specifically this complex pack context (including territory) - a "level" as in multilevel
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@themattsimpson and you can offload super important things to the context as long as it doesn't change in the wrong way suddenly
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