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To: THE ANT who wrote (144276)	11/17/2018 10:35:08 AM
From: marcher	Respond to of 217944

the following prof (wilson) studies the extinction-evolution domain: ...it was abundantly clear that the term “selfish genes” had become part of the vocabulary but was used synonymously with “selfish” in the everyday sense of the word, along with other stock phrases such as “social Darwinism”, “survival of the fittest” and “nature red in tooth and claw”. The root idea is that unselfishness is somehow less “natural” than selfishness, an evolutionary version of the religious concept of original sin. ...the “born selfish” position of Williams and Dawkins is opposed by contemporary evolutionists such as Frans DeWaal and Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, to name just a few, who regard altruism and generosity as just as “natural” as selfishness. ...Suppose that you have a choice between two social strategies, which would be regarded as generous and selfish, respectively, in everyday terms. Now suppose that I place you in a group of selfish people. You will probably elect to become selfish yourself, if only for self-preservation... Next, suppose that I place you in a group of generous people who follow the rule of expelling people who are selfish. You will wisely elect to be generous. You were not taught to be generous. You always had the option in mind and merely employed it under the right circumstance. ...You might want to say that it’s selfish for the individual to behave generously in the right circumstance, but then you will need to distinguish between two meanings of selfishness; a local form (one of the two behavioral strategies) and an “all things considered” form (which can be either of the behavioral strategies). evolution-institute.org