Agriculture increases individual fitness

作者:Kovaka Karen*; Santana Carlos; Patel Raj; Akcay Erol; Wei**erg Michael
来源:Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2016, 39: e103.
DOI:10.1017/S0140525X15001090

摘要

We question the need to explain the onset of agriculture by appealing to the second type of multilevel selection (MLS2). Unlike eusocial insect colonies, human societies do not exhibit key features of evolutionary individuals. If we avoid the mistake of equating Darwinian fitness with health and quality of life, the adoption of agriculture is almost certainly explicable in terms of individual-level selection and individual rationality.

  • 出版日期2016

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