David_Gerard comments on [LINK] Steven Pinker on "The false allure of group selection" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 24 June 2012 05:02:44PM 0 points [-]

Jerry Coyne says that the vague idea of group selection at best gives the same result as the selfish-gene model, with more complicated mathematics, not less complicated - it fails Occam.