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Posted: 09 Jun 2013

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Social Conquest of Earth •
Edward O Wilson •
March 9 2013 •
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Charles Darwin, A New Life •
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John Bowlby •

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The expected consequences of this evolutionary process in humans are the following:

@ Intense competition occurs between groups, in many circumstances including territorial aggression

@ Group composition is unstable, because of the advantage of increasing group size accruing from immigration, ideological proselytization, and conquest, pitted against the opportunities to gain advantage by usurpation within the group and fission to create new groups.

@ An unavoidable and perpetual war exists between honor, virtue, and duty, the products of group selection, on one side, and selfishness, cowardice, and hypocrisy, the products of individual selection, on the other side.

@ The perfecting of quick and expert reading of intention in others has been paramount in the evolution of human social behavior.

@ Much of culture, including especially the content of the creative arts, has arisen from the inevitable clash of individual selection and group selection.

In summary, the human condition is an endemic turmoil routed in the evolution processes that created us. The worst is our nature coexists with the best, and so it will ever be. To scrub it out, if such were possible, would make us less than human. ~ Page 56
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 Dinesh
Dinesh club
The expected consequences of this evolutionary process in humans are the following:

@ Intense competition occurs between groups, in many circumstances including territorial aggression

@ Group composition is unstable, because of the advantage of increasing group size accruing from immigration, ideological proselytization, and conquest, pitted against the opportunities to gain advantage by usurpation within the group and fission to create new groups.

@ An unavoidable and perpetual war exists between honor, virtue, and duty, the products of group selection, on one side, and selfishness, cowardice, and hypocrisy, the products of individual selection, on the other side.

@ The perfecting of quick and expert reading of intention in others has been paramount in the evolution of human social behavior.

@ Much of culture, including especially the content of the creative arts, has arisen from the inevitable clash of individual selection and group selection.

In summary, the human condition is an endemic turmoil routed in the evolution processes that created us. The worst is our nature coexists with the best, and so it will ever be. To scrub it out, if such were possible, would make us less than human. ~ Page 56
8 years ago.
 Dinesh
Dinesh club
No sooner were the proofs of variation off his desk towards the end of 1867 then Darwin resumed work on man. Back in the spring, which he had briefly looked over his notes which awaiting the proofs of ‘Variation,’ he had supposed it might make an extra chapter for that work: now he expected it to be a ‘very small volume’. In the end it became two substantial volumes, published in February 1871 under the double title ‘The Descent of Man,’ and ‘Selection in Relation to Sex.’~ page 387
23 months ago.

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