timtyler comments on Group selection update - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 20 October 2011 01:31:07PM 2 points [-]

David Sloan Wilson wrote that "group selection is arguably the single most important concept for understanding the nature of politics from an evolutionary perspective."

DSW holds rather extreme views on the topic of group selection. I would classify this particular comment as being nonsense.