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metafunctor on Jan 3, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Forget Survival of the Fittest: It Is Kindness Tha...

What do you mean when you say "without hard-coding group selection"?

Are you saying the simulation is not valid unless collaboration between individuals arises as an emergent behavior?

dumb-saint on Jan 3, 2017 [–]

If you hard-code group selection (setting the group as the unit of evolution), then you are already assuming what you want to prove.

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