Ideollurgy

Post-script: Natural Selection Does Not Only Act on “Individuals”

One common criticism against (multi) group-level selection (in favor of kin selection­ under inclusive fitness framework, which fits the individual selection, plus selfish “genes” narratives better) in explaining the evolution of altruism or other group-oriented traits is that a “group” is ill-defined, organisms seem to come and go and interact ephemerally. However, the concept of …

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The Origin of Mass Extinction

How Mother Earth can be destroyed — an energy perspective on why mass extinction occurs.

Is our path towards ecological extinction set in stone?

Post-script of “What Really Are We? The Story of the Fast-opportunist and Slow-Stratgist”

Thanks for reaching the very end of this trilogy! 😉 I want to briefly mention that, having r-strategists in an ecosystem is natural and not inherently “evil”, no matter how badly you might think of them after reading my article. They only become a problem when they are “quantitatively” out of balance. In fact, fast …

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