poptech: Lee Alan Dugatkin
October 18, 2007 by Chris | permalink
the evolution of Altruism.
READ Darwin's Evolution of Species.
he made a very academic presentation.....a guy named Haldan said 'i would jump into a river to save two brothers, but not for one'. this is essentially about the relationshipp between gentic closeness and altruism. then went on to talk about the moden theory of Altruism by WB Hamilton. he created a 'formula' which explains it. it has three components r, b and c. missed what they are....he gave the examples of honey bees and naked mole rats and ground squirrels.... it was interesting and the bottom line is that people who are blood-kin tend to take care of each other more.
