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Dawkins would probably damn any genetic basis of this as group selection, but it does make everyone better off. You contradicted yourself. Dawkins, at least in
by drunkpotato 16y ago
Dawkins would probably damn any genetic basis of this as group selection, but it does make everyone better off.
You contradicted yourself. Dawkins, at least in "The Selfish Gene", is much more subtle than most people give him credit for (subtlety makes for terrible sound-bites, like "Dawkins would damn...").
If an individual is part of a community in which there is a diversity of genes and a division of labor so that every individual in that community is more likely to reproduce their genes than individuals not in that community, then for each individual their bundle of genes will thrive. That is straight-up Dawkins. There is nothing to damn.
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