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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (125508)	3/2/2004 6:40:19 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<The Altruists often out-compete, and come out on top.>> The Altruism of chimps (and many other species, this is a robust pattern), is a Means to an End. It is not an End in itself. When chimps share food, even when they do it without any expectation of reciprocity, they are not being moral. They are doing it, because it is a successful method of acting in a group, in a way that (eventually, odds are) gets you what you want. The End, the goal, is the same as always: The Selfish Gene propagating itself. What most people think of as Darwinism, is really an obsolete 19th Century model. Field research of the last 50 years has discredited that simplistic model. <Who became the new alpha male?> Whoever led the group of rebels, if they are successful (which they aren't, always).