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Following Tuesday's discussion on kin recognition in animals, here is an excerpt from J. Philippe Rusthon's article, "Genetic similarity, human altruism, and group selection," (pp. 505-506) on kin recognition in humans:Human behavior also seems to follow lines of genetic similarity with respect to kin preference. For example, among the Ye'Kwana Indians of South America, the words "brother" and "

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Following yesterday's discussion on the topic of kin selection, here is an excerpt from J. Philippe Rushton's article, "Ethnic nationalism, evolutionary psychology and Genetic Similarity Theory" (pp. 493-494):In order to favour near kin over distant kin and distant kin over nonrelatives, the organism must be able to detect degrees of genetic similarity in others. Hamilton (1964 and 1971)

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- "A chicken is just an egg's way of making another egg."- "[L]egend has it that in a pub one evening Haldane told his friends that he would jump into a river and risk his life to save two brothers, but not one, and that he would jump in to save eight cousins, but not seven."All organisms are "survival machines" for genes -- and the primary "function" of these survival machines is to facilitate

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