Richard Dawkins Flashcards

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Wanneer intelligent leven op een planeet

A

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

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waar is evolutie voor

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Evolution is not because of the good of the species it is rather the good of the individual or the gene

We are all other animals’ machines created by our genes.

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Hoe altruism

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are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by forming limited altruism. We might wish to believe universal love and welfare of the species as a whole concept which simply does not make evolutionary sense.

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How are we born

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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism because we are born selfish. Lest us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their design.

Our genes may be selfish, but we don’t need to obey them all our lives.

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Waar is de mens door gedonimeerd

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Man is uniquely dominated by culture by influences learned and handed down.

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Altruisme dualiteit

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It often turns out altruism is really selfishness in disguise.

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Waardoor word individuele selfishness geexplained

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the fundamental laws of gene selfishness.

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Group selection theory probleem

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world becomes populated by self-sacrificing individuals. Not right few selfish people in population would survive more and only selfish people would be alive

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