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Peter Kropotkin spend 5 years observing animals in the wilds of Siberia, and having read Darwin, sought to replicate his opersations of the competitive struggle of species in the wild.
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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Natural selection “is very much about advantages in the here and now, not in the distant future. Traits conferring long-term advantages emerge because they also work well in the lives of individuals and produce positive feedbacks.”
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
In even approximate equilibrium, the variability Darwin both required and demonstrated existed was in conflict with the observed short-term stability in populations.
Stephen M. Stigler • The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
Kropotkin pointed out that Darwin’s own comments regarding the survival value of the social instincts are widely ignored. In The Descent of Man (1871), Darwin described how animal species in which cooperation among individuals replaced competitive struggle were able to secure the best conditions for survival. He implied that, in such cases, the fit... See more
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