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

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Comment author: David_Gerard 19 June 2012 09:05:36PM 6 points [-]

See, that's the sort of idea that seems like it must be true, and you can make out that it's a coherent position, but it really isn't how evolution actually works. They did in fact go and look.

Comment author: timtyler 21 June 2012 11:48:56PM -1 points [-]

Have you not heard that group selection models and kin selection models are formally equivalent?