Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA04099 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 28 Jan 2002 14:48:11 GMT From: <salice@gmx.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 15:42:05 +0100 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: sex and the single meme Message-ID: <3C55714D.14344.821EB1@localhost> In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20020127121532.02c59090@pop.cogeco.ca> References: <3C533158.8424.4352F6@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On 27 Jan 2002, at 12:45, Keith Henson wrote:
> It is actually remarkable simple. As Hamilton said one time, he should be
> willing to die if it would save more than 2 brothers or more than 8
> cousins. If you understand that a brother carries half your genes and a
> cousin one eighth of your genes it is obvious math to see that genes
> favoring this level of sacrifice would be favored over the long term.
Hm, but what about those family fathers who murder their whole
family and commit suicide afterwards?
===============================================================
This was distributed via the memetics list associated with the
Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
For information about the journal and the list (e.g. unsubscribing)
see: http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jan 28 2002 - 15:05:42 GMT