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Filligree 4 days ago

You’re proposing group selection, which always never happens.

Evolution functions not at the level of groups, or even individuals, but genes inside of individuals.

Most of the time thinking of it as group selection at the genetic level (=individuals) does work, fortunately.

andoando 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

It makes technical sense that if one individual helped for example to make the rest of the colony propgate 3x faster, it would be a collective reproductive advantage

mothballed 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I believe it would also apply similarly under kin selection.