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There's tons of research on altruism, decades of debates on group selection, kin selection etc. Nowadays it's much less of a mystery than the popular opinion t
by bonoboTP 6y ago
There's tons of research on altruism, decades of debates on group selection, kin selection etc.
Nowadays it's much less of a mystery than the popular opinion thinks. I guess the popular zeitgeist is a few decades lagging behind science.
Robert Sapolsky's course on human behavior and its evolution is on YouTube and it's great. Or read books on human ethology.
- jes 6y agoI have benefitted from Dr. Sapolsky's video series as well. I recommend it to others fairly often.
- leto_ii 6y agoI've seen him on JRE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obmt_PkIfBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obmt_PkIfBE). I liked his observations on the baboon troupe and how changing group makeup led to a change of dynamics and the establishment of a more cooperative equilibrium.
- yboris 6y agoDaniel Batson spent his academic life researching altruism. His work is wonderful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Batson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Batson