Pickup_shonuff Wrote:Altruism benefits another individual but not the speciesSeems to me that the species benefits through the benefits which apply to its members. e.g. the species grows more numerous if even only one of its members does not starve when it otherwise might.
(January 6, 2015 at 6:41 pm)Chas Wrote: Kin selection is just gene selection. Evolution happens at the gene level, not the organism level.OK, I'm still confuged.
If evolution is solely about changes in gene frequency, then why think that there are benefits for individuals and not the species? I don't see how you can accept one and reject the other.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?