[ExI] The Selfish Gene? Maybe not----

[Dave Sill]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 2:53 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> quoted:

The reason this is important is that the standard evolutionary theory
> of cooperation says that global cooperation can emerge from behaviors
> that are individually selfish.  It can't.
>

I'm gonna call BS on that. There are good, selfish reasons for cooperating
and doing things that look superficially altruistic.

-Dave
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