Thread by @MarcelHarmon1

1/6: There’s much about this article I like. But I take issue with the framing of these revelations about collaborative behavior as “leaving the Darwinian consensus behind.”

via @Slate #prosocial #collaboration #cooperation #evolution

slate.com/technology/202…

2/6: #Cooperation and #competition are both evolutionary adaptive strategies – which one is primarily in play at a given level of selection depends largely on whether within group or among group selection forces are dominant at that level.

3/6: And the answer to that is influenced by host of contextual factors, complicated by the multitude of overlapping nested hierarchies of life on this planet (including humans).

One can also make the argument that #Darwin recognized the importance of group...

4/6: (or multi-level) selection, and how #cooperation vs #competition fits within this, as Elliott Sober did in “Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?” and other scholars have done elsewhere. This recognition that collaboration is as “natural” as competition...

5/6: isn’t about evolving beyond Darwinian Evolution. It’s about achieving a greater understanding of what Darwinian Evolution, through multi-level selection in particular, has to say about life on this planet and various aspects of behavior.

6/6: An understanding that is particularly insightful to human social/cultural systems, and affords us the ability to modify/build our systems in a manner that optimizes human fitness over the long term.