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Re:Fourteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2022 by mach1ne on Thursday December 29, 2022 @08:48AM (#34172537)
Name one where the system is not contingent on immediate family helping immediate family, or to be more precise, one which is not explained by Hamilton's Law.

There is no individual selection either, by the way, that's another commmon misconception. You don't push out copies of yourself. There is only the selection of individual genes.

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Re:Fourteen Discoveries Made About Human Evolution in 2022 by JoeAltmaier on Thursday December 29, 2022 @09:53AM (#34173164)
And the genes are in a population pool, not standing by themselves. So the only selection is group selection, that is, the survival of that part of the group that contains advantageous genes.
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