gwern comments on Evolutionary psychology: evolving three eyed monsters - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 18 March 2012 01:32:47AM 0 points [-]

The selfish gene could try not to waste resources raising children that are not possessing the gene. That works even better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-beard_effect

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 March 2012 02:20:19AM *  1 point [-]

I'm not sure Green-beard effects can actually occur in practice since a mutation that kept the Green beard while destroying the pathway for self-altruism would out-compete the original Green beards.