Possibility Space in Evolution
What possibility spaces are needed to get from beginnings to where we have now arrived, in Earth history?
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Genes and the Adapted Mind
The system of inheritance of ideas is independent of the system of inheritance of genes. All this is pointing steadily to a difference in being human, to a complex mind indeed adapted for culture, that is, to a distinctive human genius.
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Distributed and Shared Genetic Value
Since genes are not moral agents, they cannot be selfish, and, equally, they cannot be altruistic. But genes can transmit information.
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Selfish Genes and Inclusive Values
Each organism is in pursuit of—that is, values—its own proper life, which is all that the (nonhuman) individual organism either can or ought to pursue. It turns out, however, that values can be held intrinsically only as they are inclusively distributed.