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Darwin argued that the three-step process of natural selection [Natural selection is a simple mechanism that causes populations of living things to change over time. In fact, it is so simple that it can be broken down into five basic steps, abbreviated here as VISTA: Variation, Inheritance, Selection, Time and Adaptation.] operating on generations of individuals and their traits, also operate on lineages of groups of people. Groups have traits -- norms, institutions, practices, cultures -- which are transmitted from generation to generation, and so are heritable. And these traits differ in their fitness -- that is, in differing environments some are adaptations and other are maladaptations -- for the groups that bear them. Different fitness of inherited traits is all one needs for natural selection. Groups with cooperative members will be selected for. Why? When these groups competed with mega fauna and with one another territory or prey, the winning group would have to be the ones whose members worked together, cooperated with one another to fight off predators, kill prey, and eventually kill off other groups of people. //Individuals altruists may be selected against -- heroes who throw themselves on grenades leave no offspring. But groups without people ready to sacrifice their interests for one another at least some of the time will lose out in the struggle for group survival. In the long run of competition between groups, those groups composed of people nice to one another would have been selected for. After long enough the only groups left would be those composed of the people nice to each other. Whence, according to Darwin, cooperation, indeed altruism must triumpyh as fitness enhancing for groups, despite its immediate fitness costs for theindividual members of groups. ` Page 210/211