Tag: Kin Selection

• The Evolution of Human Behavior?

  

  On why scientists should not make unsubstantiated claims in popular science works especially where human beings are concerned It is quite fashionable these days to try and explain human behavior as a result of evolution through natural selection. Just as a small example, I quote the following from an article by the renowned evolutionary psychologist…

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  March 25, 2013

  Abuse of Science, Modeling, Science Debates

  Darwin, Evolution, Evolution of Behavior, Evolution of Competition, Evolution of Cooperation, Kin Selection, Natural Selection, Reciprocal Altruism, Richard Dawkins, Robert Trivers, Steven Pinker, Storytelling, tit for tat, W.D. Hamilton