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A Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Altruism: Gene-culture Coevolution and the Internalization of Norms

by Nick Horton

In an article for the Journal of Theoretical Biology, Herbert Gintis provides a model that shows that: “if an internal norm is fitness enhancing, then for plausible patterns of socialization, the allele for the internalization of norms is evolutionarily stable.” Further he posits that this view can be used to model Herbert Simon’s 1990 explanation… [Read More]

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Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Altruism, Behavior, Economics, Evolution, Gintis, Group, Herbert, selection

Natural Selection is Weird, Very Weird

by Nick Horton

Carl Zimmer talks about the crazy bottom dwelling flounder.

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