Romashka comments on Open Thread May 30 - June 5, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam 02 June 2016 08:04:50AM *  0 points [-]

Genes don't need to help the individual that carries it.

Technically true, but irrelevant in the scenario when there is yet only one organism having the gene. Kill the organism and the gene is gone.

Comment author: Romashka 02 June 2016 05:22:46PM 1 point [-]

BTW, I was just browsing JSTOR and saw this: Life history, habitat saturation and the evolution of fecundity and survival altruism. S. Lion and S. Gandon, Evolution, v. 64 n. 6 (2010), pp. 1594-1606. If you would like to, I could relate the substance (it is a tiny bit inconvenient for me to do right now, or I would have.)