As Wright says, organisms are not that harmonious anyway. At every polymorphic locus, two alleles are engaged in a battle-to-the-death.
There is still enough cooperation for people to describe the resulting behaviour as “purposeful”—despite all the underlying replicator-level conflicts that produce it.
As Wright says, organisms are not that harmonious anyway. At every polymorphic locus, two alleles are engaged in a battle-to-the-death.
There is still enough cooperation for people to describe the resulting behaviour as “purposeful”—despite all the underlying replicator-level conflicts that produce it.