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The main argument against group selection has always been that, well sure, it would be nice to have a group of cooperators, but as soon as you have a group of cooperators, they're just going to get taken over by free-riders, individuals that are going to exploit the hard work of the others.

If a group cannot solve the free-rider problem then it cannot reap the benefits of cooperation and group selection cannot get started.

And we are Homo duplex because we evolved by multilevel selection, as Darwin explained.

While our selection process is not as rigorous as NASA, it's nonetheless thorough.

It's going to be built by users, by people who get this data together, by people who want to aggregate all sorts of maps from wherever they come from, all sorts of medieval romances from wherever they come from, people who just want to curate their own glorious selection of beautiful things.

So through natural selection, over time, mutations, variations that disrupt the function of a protein will not be tolerated over time.

Put them all together, and put all this under kind of natural selection, under mutation, and rewarded things for how well they can move forward.

And so we decided, of course, to have Sim City 2000, not the other Sim City, that one in particular, so the criteria that we developed along the way were really strong, and were not only criteria of selection.

So you start seeing here that the aesthetics that are so important to a museum collection like MoMA's are kept alive also by the selection of these games.

The one we know best is Darwinian natural selection.

And in a way, this is also another default selection.

But as that idea started to fade away, as sports scientists and coaches realized that rather than the average body type, you want highly specialized bodies that fit into certain athletic niches, a form of artificial selection took place, a self-sorting for bodies that fit certain sports, and athletes' bodies became more different from one another.

It accelerated the artificial selection for specialized bodies.

They've been shaped by two powerful evolutionary forces: natural selection, the struggle for survival, and sexual selection, the struggle for reproductive opportunity.

Driven now by sexual selection, some adult fireflies like this proud male evolved a shiny new glow-in-the-dark lantern that would let them take courtship to a whole new level.

So a firefly vampire, brought to you by natural selection.

Public opinion polls consistently show that significant proportions of the American people don't believe the climate is warming due to human activities, don't think that there is evolution by natural selection, and aren't persuaded by the safety of vaccines.

Many years later back in London, Darwin looked at his data again and began to develop an explanation, and that explanation was the theory of natural selection.

And indeed, future evolution will happen much faster, on a technological timescale, not a natural selection timescale.

Basically, the massive use of antibiotics around the world has imposed such large selection pressure on bacteria that resistance is now a problem, because we've now selected for just the resistant bacteria.

Now, this is the game we're playing against the bacteria, except we're not the cheetahs, we're the gazelles, and the bacteria would, just in the course of this little talk, would have had kids and grandkids and figured out how to be resistant just by selection and trial and error, trying it over and over again.

Now, what's common to all of these things is the idea that we've had these technologies to control nature only for the last 70, 80 or 100 years and essentially in a blink, we have squandered our ability to control, because we have not recognized that natural selection and evolution was going to find a way to get back, and we need to completely rethink how we're going to use measures to control biological organisms, and rethink how we incentivize the development, introduction, in the case of antibiotics prescription, and use of these valuable resources.

Now, if we compare this score, the average score, to how many messages a selection of people receive, you can begin to get a sense of how attractiveness links to popularity on an online dating website.

In biology, the notions of symbiosis, group selection, evolutionary psychology are contested, to be sure.

I was just coming down to make my selection."

Now, this led to a selection of landing sites.

And it's just standard selection: we can select for viability, chemical or fuel production, vaccine production, etc.

So this raises an important technical question: Does natural selection really favor seeing reality as it is?

We haven't done these simulations, but my bet is that we'll find that there are some selection pressures for our logic and our mathematics to be at least in the direction of truth.

We don't get it all right, but at least the selection pressures are not uniformly away from true math and logic.

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