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From: jabowery@netcom.com (Jim Bowery)
Subject: Re: Selfish Genes
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The selfish gene paradigm comes into its own in environments where the 
selfish individual paradigm fails to predict altruism.  

Kin selection phenomena has been modeled in a-life in only one piece of 
work that I am aware of:

http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~oliphant/papers/sauss.ps
http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~oliphant/papers/pd.ps

Contrast this with the enormous amount of work on kin-altruism that has 
been done in ethology and one can see a major intellectual failing of the 
a-life community.
-- 
The promotion of politics exterminates apolitical genes in the population.
  The promotion of frontiers gives apolitical genes a route to survival.
                 Change the tools and you change the rules.
