TGGP, Steve Sailer’s post seems to me to confuse executing adaptations versus maximizing fitness: “The good news is that conquering land really doesn’t pay these days, so peace has become, from a group-selectionist point of view, more rational than in the past.” So what? Modern humans will go on executing the conquest adaptation.
TGGP, Steve Sailer’s post seems to me to confuse executing adaptations versus maximizing fitness: “The good news is that conquering land really doesn’t pay these days, so peace has become, from a group-selectionist point of view, more rational than in the past.” So what? Modern humans will go on executing the conquest adaptation.