Re:Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness That Count...
by naasking on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @02:25PM
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> Homosexuality is the most common one, and as current research suggests a genetic component it seems likely that with further information it will ultimately make sense, if not as an adaptive trait, at least as a consequence of adaptive traits.
Given homosexuality is prevalent in the animal kingdom as well, that's pretty much assured.
The others are indeed examples of memes overpowering genes, and an evolutionary model (of memes) can help to explain them as well. It's not a well-developed field to be sure, but it's a worthwhile perspective. A cartoony example is religions that ban sex vs religions that ban contraception - given that religious memes are strongly conserved in offspring, which meme would you expect to spread better? How does that compare to what we actually see?