BIO 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Homicide, Thought Experiment
28 Feb 2017
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Strong, new selection can produce an evolutionary revolution. A social revolution productions self-domestication: selection is fast. Looking at animals", including our ancestors, behaviors: they are basically just trying to replicate genetic information, purposeful behavior is output of mind (agent), which is based on design information (source). Design information is chosen by natural selection: humans (not our ancestors) are different, also affected by cultural information. But we will go into details later in the semester: while discussing non-human animal behaviors, minds can also be called as proximate cause, and design information can also be called as ultimate cause. Genetic relatedness is not the same thing as genetic similarity or identity. Darwinian selection for kin-specific cooperation (also called kin-selection: kin-specific cooperation & indiscriminate cooperation. Kin-specific cooperation trumps all other social strategies: would not exist in real world. The others i grew up with are my siblings, therefore, our relatedness (r) would be only.
