The evolution of eusociality : Nature : Nature Publishing Group: "Eusociality, in which some individuals reduce their own lifetime reproductive potential to raise the offspring of others, underlies the most advanced forms of social organization and the ecologically dominant role of social insects and humans. For the past four decades kin selection theory, based on the concept of inclusive fitness, has been the major theoretical attempt to explain the evolution of eusociality. Here we show the limitations of this approach. We argue that standard natural selection theory in the context of precise models of population structure represents a simpler and superior approach, allows the evaluation of multiple competing hypotheses, and provides an exact framework for interpreting empirical observations."
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All you need to do is examine the incredible degree of parenting and care that is given as a matter of course when original parents are somehow not present. Altruism does not trump Darwin - we are a spectrum. The lack of subtlety within the binary mentality typical of much scientific thinking frustrates the capacity to perceive that in human beings there is a little thing called freedom that enables a person not merely to say yes and no but also to devise a way beyond that dyad.
We live mainly in the beyond. That is who we are.
Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes
