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A no-cost public good qualifies as selfish in absolute fitness terms, and need not require caring about others psychologically, but still requires a multi-group population structure and between-group selection to evolve in an evolutionary model.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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Fourth, once we become accustomed to translating among the various accounting methods, the importance of between-group selection for the evolution of solid-citizen traits becomes uncontroversial.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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First, notice that between-group selection is required to explain the evolution of a no-cost public good, even before we consider examples in which benefitting others requires a personal cost.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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As soon as the appropriate partitioning is made, the roles of within- and between-group selection are there for all to see.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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First, notice that between-group selection is required to explain the evolution of a no-cost public good, even before we consider examples in which benefitting others requires a personal cost.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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Since the panoply of human social control mechanisms can stabilize just about any norm, equilibrium selection is an especially powerful form of between-group selection in our species.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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Religion not only promotes difference, it makes divisions impossible to eliminate, so between-group co-operation is discouraged and out-group hostility is fueled.
Ted Cadsby: Defying Our Maker: What The New Atheists Miss Ted Cadsby 2011
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Religion not only promotes difference, it makes divisions impossible to eliminate, so between-group co-operation is discouraged and out-group hostility is fueled.
Ted Cadsby: Defying Our Maker: What The New Atheists Miss Ted Cadsby 2011
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Fourth, once we become accustomed to translating among the various accounting methods, the importance of between-group selection for the evolution of solid-citizen traits becomes uncontroversial.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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A no-cost public good qualifies as selfish in absolute fitness terms, and need not require caring about others psychologically, but still requires a multi-group population structure and between-group selection to evolve in an evolutionary model.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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