Unnamed comments on Forager Anthropology - Less Wrong

11 Post author: WrongBot 28 July 2010 05:48AM

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Comment author: Unnamed 28 July 2010 06:41:51AM 8 points [-]

I don't see how kin selection and alloparenting fall outside the standard view.

Comment author: HughRistik 28 July 2010 08:26:54PM 8 points [-]

I am starting to wonder if this "standard view" thing is a bit of a straw man. Most of the stuff WrongBot describes that is supposedly outside the standard view, I learned in college anthropology/bio/psych classes, so it can't be too nonstandard. I could agree that some positions in the supposed "standard view" used to be more common, but I think that they have been debunked enough that they aren't really standard anymore.

Comment author: hegemonicon 28 July 2010 03:57:00PM 2 points [-]

Agreed - I was under the impression that kin selection based on % relatedness was a fairly basic prediction of standard evolutionary theory.

Comment author: knb 28 July 2010 04:14:12PM 2 points [-]

It absolutely is! Wikipedia even has a subsection entitled kin selection in evolutionary Psychology!