[lbo-talk] Instinct

[Gar Lipow]

On 12/3/05, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>
> No, you're not getting it.  If I am genetically related to someone, and
> my traits help my genetically related relatives to survive and
> reproduce, then natural selection would select for my traits, even if
> those traits did not directly increase my own fertility.  This is a
> common explanation for prosocial behavior in primates.
>

Or as Haldane put it "I'd lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins".

Signed

The 30 pound snail on Gar's monitor