Multilevel Selection
“a chicken is just an egg’s way of making another egg”—the organism is just a vehicle for the genome to be replicated in the next generation, and behavior is just this wispy epiphenomenon that facilitates the replication.
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“No matter how much power Dawkins wishes to assign to genes, there is one thing he cannot give them—direct visibility to natural selection.”
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Why was each superstar the egg queen in her original group? Because she would aggressively peck subordinates enough to stress them into reduced fertility.
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Chapter 10 The Evolution of Behavior
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