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A part of Dawkins’s purpose was to explain altruism: behavior in individuals that goes against their own best interests. Nature is full of examples of animals risking their own lives in behalf of their progeny, their cousins, or just fellow members of their genetic club. Furthermore, they share food; they cooperate in building hives and dams; they

Da un animale selvatico, infatti, non ci si deve mai aspettare che tratti l’uomo altrimenti di come farebbe con un suo conspecifico. Il dingo mi dimostrava la stessa cordialità che un animale adulto della sua razza ha per un suo pari, solo che, appunto, non vi era in lui nei miei riguardi alcuna traccia di sottomissione e di ubbidienza.

When nonhumans act in accord with a distant future, like hiding seeds to eat next season, it is primarily as a result of genetic programming.

While we don’t dispute that these patterns play out in many parts of the modern world, we don’t see them as elements of human nature so much as adaptations to social conditions—many of which were introduced with the advent of agriculture no more than ten thousand years ago. These behaviors and predilections are not biologically programmed traits of

According to Rob Boyd and Pete Richerson, two of the leading scholars of gene-culture coevolution,[23] there are several “strategies” that won out over thousands of generations and became part of our evolved propensity for culture. The two that are most relevant for our discussion of social media are conformist bias and prestige bias.

In zoology, it points to the behaviour of an animal that benefits another at its own expense. The survival of the species (or its youngsters) may be instinctively prioritized, as if identification as a whole race was there.

Modern men’s mating psychology should be characterized by a penchant for sexual opportunism, because their ancestors would have passed down more copies of their genes than their more sexually restricted contemporaries.

Se si prende un cucciolo di una specie canina non addomesticata e lo si alleva nella famiglia umana come un cane di casa, ci si può facilmente convincere che l’attaccamento giovanile dell’animale selvatico corrisponde esattamente a quei legami sociali che la maggior parte dei nostri cani domestici conservano per tutta la vita con i loro padroni.