Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Oren Harman, The Price of Altruism 6 Sept 2011

Oren Harman

Amazing creatures, the social amoebae. Individuals, who, when resources become scarce, organize themselves into a slug-like blob, though they also have cheaters

Mirron neurons erase the difference between self and other. This gives a true biological basis for altruism.

Mr. Harman is a fan of George Price, who, along with working on the Manhattan Project and CAD, formulated the Price Equation, which proves and better expresses Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection,
"The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time."

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