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Evolutionists at war over altruism's origins
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An intellectual war of words has broken out between two of the
world's leading evolutionists. Oxford University's Richard Dawkins
and Harvard's Edward Wilson have gone head to head over the
evolution of altruism in the animal kingdom, and whether it can have
come about as a result of something called group selection.
The subject matter of their dispute is social insects,
particularly ants, which display a supreme form of altruism in that
sterile workers lay down their lives for the ben...
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SOCIETY AS ORGANISM.
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; A GROUP SELECTION PRIMER AND REPLY TO HARTUNG Readers whose knowledge of group selection is confined to the pages of SKEPTIC must be amazed at the bits of information and misinformation, flying like shrapnel amidst insults and allusions to World War III. The greatest service we can perform is to
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As they would do to you
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; A review of Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. By Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson. 1998. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 0-674-93046-0 THIS IS A THOROUGHLY disappointing book, start to finish. It is alternatively aggressive, promising too much and defensive,
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Kin Selection in Human Populations: Theory Reconsidered
Human Biology
; Abstract Past considerations of kin selection have assumed a dyadic fitness exchange relationship between altruist and recipient. This approach does not account for all alleles affected by altruistic behavior. This can be corrected by focusing on matings rather than on individuals. I present a
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One-celled socialites: bacteria mix and mingle with microscopic fervor.
Science News
; Welcome to a vibrant social scene that has operated largely in secret until the past few years. Its participants don't seem to mind going unnoticed. They congregate in immense numbers to fend off enemies and the brute forces of nature, to obtain food, to reproduce, and to move to greener pastures.
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Law of the jungle: altruism.(Review)
U.S. News & World Report
; Can animals' cooperative instincts help build a better human? As a hungry hawk circles overhead, a Belding's ground squirrel rises up on her hind legs and emits a piercing alarm call, risking her life to warn others of the impending danger. Even at personal peril, a male baboon helps another male
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