Fertility norms and cultural evolution http://family-studies.org/who-decides-when-to-stop-how-couples-resolve-conflicts-over-childbearing/ …
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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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"Having children" being divorced from pair bonding and sex is NOT a new problem, and cultures did solve it, for thousands of years.
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Re: multilevel selection - wolf reproduction http://www.wolfcountry.net/information/WolfReproduction.html …
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@sarahdoingthing How is this an example of multi-level selection?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@JayMan471 thinking about this http://lesswrong.com/lw/st/anthropomorphic_optimism/ … - the idea that predators don't maintain their populations1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@JayMan471 what's the best good-faith rejection of multilevel selection you've seen?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Here you go: http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/group-selection-and-homosexuality/ … & http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/10341/1/Ratio07022014.pdf …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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