ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Selfish Machines, The Selfish Gene, Gene-Centered View Of Evolution

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 3HI3
• Professor: Priscilla Medeiros

Document Summary

Chapter 5 aggression: stability and the selfish machine. So by killing b, i am potentially doing a favor to c by removing one of his rivals as well. It might be better to let b live so that b and c can engage in combat instead. The moral of this is that there is no obvious merit in trying to kill rivals. Perhaps he won it in combat and beaten off other challengers; even if i win the fight and gain the harem, i may become badly mauled in the process. Not fighting means i can eat and grow bigger and stronger. Chances of winning may be better if i wait a little longer: this subjective soliloquy is a way of pointing out. Page 70 penalize deviation from the ess: to apply the ess idea to aggression, consider maynard smith(cid:495)s hypothetical case, example; If a hawk and dove fight, the dove quickly runs away.