Category: altruism

20Sep 2025 by Post

Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

altruism, burning cars, Casey Luskin, Culture, Education, Evolution, evolutionary mechanism, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary utility, genes, group selection, heroism, human behavior, kin selection, kindness, Marvel Universe, Podcast, reciprocal altruism, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, strangers, teamwork

Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Source

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12Nov 2021 by Post

Amazing Insect Colonies vs. Evolution

algorithms, altruism, Animal Algorithms, Charles Darwin, colony insects, drone swarm, Eric Cassell, Evolution, evolutionary theory, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, orphan genes, Robert J. Marks, social behaviors, technologists

How could a mindless evolutionary process have evolved these sophisticated colonies? Source

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16Jan 2021 by Post

To Say the Lease, Altruism Is Not an Easy Fit with Darwinism

altruism, Andrew McDiarmid, Culture & Ethics, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, genes, group selection, humans, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, kin selection, Love, non-kin, offspring, self-sacrifice, survival machines

Evolutionists have made some progress (they think) explaining such things with theories of group selection or kin selection. Source

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11Jan 2021 by Post

How to Destroy Love with Darwinism

Alice in Wonderland, alleles, altruism, antelopes, ants, behavior, behaviorism, biology, bioRxiv, bonobos, cooperation, Darwinian theory, Evolution, game theory, genetic determinism, Green Beard hypothesis, Kaleda K. Denton, kin selection, Lausanne University, leaping, lions, Love, pandemic, Red Queen hypothesis, slime molds, watchman crow

When Darwin proposed a new view of biology based on chance, he cheapened everything, including our most precious human values. Source

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