From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 19:44:29 MDT
> Emlyn O'regan wrote:
> >
> > > ERROR 514: group selection hypothesized
> >
> > Maybe. I would have said it was individual behaviour
> selected for in the
> > context that there is always a group.
> >
> > Should I have replaced phrases such as "many societies have
> evolved to..."
> > with "many individual behaviours, which collectively
> resemble a society,
> > have evolved in the context of external social influences
> to...", and "it
> > makes the society a nicer place to be" with "it improves
> what the individual
> > can expect of his/her social environment"?
>
Eliezer wrote:
> It doesn't fix the logical problem, unless you can explain
> how the behaviors
> which improve the social environment collectively also
> improve reproductive
> fitness individually.
You are assuming that social behaviour travels via the genome. I think
that's wrong.
Emlyn
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