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Mais le problème est plus complexe, les deux processus de sélection ne sont pas mutuellement exclusifs. Même si la compétition d’un individu à l’intérieur d’un groupe est le processus le plus important de l’évolution humaine, la sélection au niveau des groupes, la compétition entre les groupes, peut avoir joué un rôle également.

Then, in 1962, the Scottish ecologist V. C. Wynne-Edwards, a careful observer of his country’s native red grouse, concluded that these birds sometimes sacrificed their reproductive privileges to keep their flock from starvation. The grouse, Wynne-Edwards contended, gauged the amount of food the moors could provide each year and adjusted their behav

The assumption is that evolution is a line. But evolution is in the context, in what we learn together, mutually.

When evolutionary biologists talk about success, they don’t describe Ferraris and yachts and taking private jets out to Burning Man. They talk about our ability to adapt in order to avoid danger.

Existia um “teorema” da hereditariedade; ele só estava à espera de ser descoberto. Qualquer sociedade que desvendasse o teorema e impusesse suas combinações prescritivas poderia garantir a produção das crianças mais aptas, desencadeando uma espécie de eugenia numerológica:

By observing whom others watch, listen to, defer to, hang-around, and imitate, learners can more effectively figure out from whom to learn. Using these “prestige cues” allows learners to take advantage of the fact that other people also are seeking, and have obtained, insights about who in the local community is likely to possess useful, adaptive i