jimrandomh comments on Babies and Bunnies: A Caution About Evo-Psych - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 13 March 2011 04:08:37AM 1 point [-]

Destroying a population of livestock is a group problem that gives its negative selection on the local tribe.

Not in societies that have a notion of property ownership, and not for herders that travel alone or with a group composed only of genetic relatives. That there would be group selection too does not matter much.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 13 March 2011 04:48:05AM 0 points [-]

Granted. But in order for that to matter one would need that to be the primary form of herding for a very large amount of human history.