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Old 06-29-2007   #11 (permalink)
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@Ilya: Of course thought about evolution causing psychology. I was not sure about it, for one to say evolution had a role it in one must consider where in natural selection it is advantageous. As individuals, it might be advantageous in recognizing parents, but that is only a single layer. Respecting whole other species it not useful for that. As species-selection, i doubt that one species actively helps another, so similarity-respect in that selection helps very little.
In natural selection, the gene is the unit that is selected, not the species.
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