#selection

Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of our genes is to actually help another organism, with reciprocal altruism the goal is that the organism be left under the impression that we've helped; the impression alone is enough to bring the reciprocation. ↗

— Robert Wright

#evolution #natural-selection #reciprocity #nature

It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion. The offspring have eyes because their parents' eyes did see well (good, ordinary, forward causation). ↗

— Steven Pinker

#evolution #natural-selection #teleology #nature

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#among #group #individual #members #mix

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#between #humanist #just #maintains #selection

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#could #more #much #obvious #online

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#life #makes #perfect #poet #selection

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. ↗

— Edward Lawrie Tatum

#better understood #coming #cultures #evolution #mutant

I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#commissioner #could #deal #given #great

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are. ↗

— Joseph Wambaugh

#both sides #emotional #jury #looking #manipulate