[ExI] Did Evolution produce a gene for good soldiers?

[John Clark]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 4:01 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

 >
> *Males might as well fight on to the death since that's what is going to
> happen to them if they werecaptured.*


But those males had mothers, and they had genes not to fight to the death,
and so there was a 50% chance the males inherited them from her, the males
also had fathers, and they may have had those same "not to fight to the
death" genes for the very same reason.


> > *Winning [wars] left more copies of genes than losing.*


Maybe, but evolution can quickly become extremely complicated and counter
intuitive, so that is very far from being obvious.

John K Clark
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