Showing posts with label altruism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label altruism. Show all posts
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Relatedness is relative: How can I be 85% genetically similar to my mom, but only related to her by half?

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First of all, no. I am not the lovechild of star-crossed siblings, or even cousins, or even second cousins.  This is a gee-whiz kind o...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

What if Rev Jenyns had agreed? Part II. Would evolutionary theory be different from a population perspective?

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I n yesterday's  post I noted some general differences between Darwin's individual-centered theory of evolution, and AR Wallace...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Plant sociality and solidarity

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P lants aren’t nearly as passive as their stationary state might lead one to think.  They have similar immune system needs to animals, becau...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

"Roots": the saga of (plant) families caring for each other

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We did a  post  a few weeks ago about plant intelligence.  We wrote primarily about a recent Michael Pollan piece in The New Yorker that di...
Friday, June 7, 2013

Cooperation might actually be ... cooperation

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Cooperation, altruism, anything but self-interest, have long been perplexing to true Darwinians.  According to theory, cooperation can't...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Darwin vs Wordsworth: Is Nature cruel or beneficent?

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In what looks an awful lot like cooperative behavior, groups of birds often get together to 'mob' a predator.  That is, they swarm p...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Altruism -- can we do good just for the sake of it, after all?

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Ant colony; Wikimedia Commons Altruism, organisms being good to others even at their own risk, has perplexed true Darwinists for 150 year...