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High diversity = exploration Low diversity, many copies of previously-successful organisms or memes or thought processes = exploitation
Low diversity => high cooperation High diversity => feelings and morals that emphasize individuality
Given a goal and an environment, there is some optimal balance between exploration and exploitation. But that balance also strongly influences the resulting balance between collectivist and individualist ethics.
How does (intra-human) cultural variation in individualism/collectivism feed into this?
Those are finer-grained variations, and aren't explained by sexual diploidy, since all humans are sexually diploid.
To the extent that such finer-grained variation is possible, it suggests that the constraint you're positing isn't actually that much of a constraint.
Maybe I'm still missing the point of the post.