Re: sex and the single meme

From: Keith Henson (hkhenson@cogeco.ca)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 17:41:13 GMT

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    At 05:45 PM 28/01/02 +0100, <salice@gmx.net>
      wrote:

    > > 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.
    >
    >Btw, this logic is wrong.
    >
    >A brother doesn't share half of the genes i'd say it goes more in the
    >direction of 90% if not more.

    It is way higher than that. 98% with chimps. Heck, we share a good number
    of genes with *bacteria.*

    But that is not the point. Evolution is working on the differences, not
    the common elements. And brothers have half of the differences in common,
    or a little more since their Y chromosomes are identical (barring mutation).

    Read Dawkins on this point. He explains it clearly.

    Keith Henson

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