Incorrect comments on Rationality Quotes September 2011 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: dvasya 02 September 2011 07:38AM

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Comment author: Incorrect 29 September 2011 11:34:20PM 7 points [-]

I understand why group selection is problematic: Individual selection trumps it.

However, when group and individual selective pressure coincide, the mutation could survive to the point where it exists in a group at which point the group will have better fitness because of the group selective pressure.

Is this incorrect?