(January 6, 2015 at 2:24 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Moreover, as Coyne also states, "we never see adaptations that benefit the species at the expense of the individual---What am I missing here.
Whatever happened to explaining altruism via kin selection?
Seems to me that any benefit to the kin at the expense of the adapted individual qualifies as a counter example here even if the benefit to the species via benefit to the kin is small.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?