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Originally Posted by Jasper84 @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.