On 11/28/2014 11:03 PM, Kim Jones wrote:
There is the whole emergent thing of the group behaving as you say, more intelligently (or competently, exhibiting adaptive behaviour both within and without) which accounts for the enormous value of being a good and compliant clan member rather than the elephant who walks alone in the forest and gets shot by the poacher.
Being in a group that shares genes can be a big advantage to the genes in being propagated. For example, the group can be much more aggressive and warlike because having a few individuals killed is compensated by greater reproductive success for the remainder. Just compare the behavior of solitary versus social wasps. And the same would apply to memes.
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