A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health textbook from 1929

Re:A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health tex... by wussboy on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @11:26AM (#42319083)

The word "generally" is the important one in your sentence. Genes don't know what environment they will be born into, and so they include various strategies to cope with the unknown in the hope that some will survive.

Generally, humans are better suited to stable and safe environments. But it would be irresponsible of genes not to include, occasionally, humans who did better in chaos because chaos frequently happens.

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Re:A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health tex... by jon_richards on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @11:39AM (#42319186)

I believe there was a study that showed a mix of behaviors because populations with cooperative individuals out-compete in plentiful times and selfish individuals out-compete in scarce times. Hard to Google now because of selfish gene theory.

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Re:A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health tex... by wussboy on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @11:47AM (#42319291)

D.S. Wilson did a lot of work in that area.

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Re:A pro-science, pro-progress, techno-optimistic health tex... by drcwpl on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @12:09PM (#42319521)

Yes, especially his A theory of group selection https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC432258/

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