[lit-ideas] Unto Others
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- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 10:08:11 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 5/28/2014 9:08:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes in "Re: My Friends the Baboons": "My posts
tried to
explain why [the baboon case] is not an example of "group selection" but
must be, in Darwinian terms, an example of "kin selection". As such it is
not a counter-example to the view that "nothing is 'selected for' via its
removal from the gene-pool": on the contrary, it must be an example of
something 'selected for' because - and only because - of how it protects the
same
"genes" from removal from the gene-pool. Anyone who disputes this is
disputing that an orthodox Darwinian explanation applies or is showing that
they
do not really understand the character of Darwinian explanation. It would, I
suggest, take much more than a single uncorroborated story of the baboon
type to challenge "the orthodox Darwinian view": just as we would not
replace that Darwinian view because a Walt Disney nature documentary told us
that
bees sting to protect the hive because they are selfless like human
soldiers sacrificing their lives for the greater good of the group.
For the record, below, the references to the Wikipedia's entry on group
selection -- since perhaps we should distinguish:
-- the concept itself.
-- an analysis of the concept itself.
-- the use of the concept alla Darwin.
-- the use of the concept elsewhere
-- other.
It seems such a philosophical analysis is attempted in the "Unto others"
book referred to below.
Cheers,
Speranza
Bergstrom, T.C.
"Evolution of Social Behavior: Individual and Group Selection" Journal of
Economic Perspectives 16
Bijma, P.; Muir, W.M.; Van Arendonk, J.A.M.
"Multilevel Selection 1: Quantitative Genetics of Inheritance and
Response to Selection". Genetics 175
Bijma, P.; Muir, W.M.; Ellen, E. D.; Wolf, Jason B.; Van Arendonk, J.A.M.
"Multilevel Selection 2: Estimating the Genetic Parameters Determining
Inheritance and Response to Selection". Genetics 175
Boyd, R.; Richerson, P.J. "Group Beneficial Norms Spread Rapidly in a
Structured Population" (PDF). Journal of Theoretical Biology 215
West, S.A.; Griffin, A.S.; Gardner, A. "Social semantics: how useful has
group selection been?". Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21
Sober, Elliott and Wilson, David Sloan. Unto Others: The Evolution and
Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Soltis, J.; Boyd, R.; Richerson, P.J. "Can Group-functional Behaviors
Evolve by Cultural Group Selection? An Empirical Test" (PDF). Current
Anthropology 63
Wilson, D. S. (1987). "Altruism in Mendelian populations derived from
sibling groups: The haystack model revisited". Evolution 41
.
Wilson, D.S. Human groups as adaptive units: toward a permanent
consensus. In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence & S. Stich (Eds.), The Innate Mind:
Culture
and Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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