2008/07/31 by Gérald Fournier, Fournier, Gérald
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Physics and Astronomy · #Evolution and Science Education #FOS: Biological sciences #Origins and Evolution of Life #Plant and animal studies #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0807.5068
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We propose, in this article, an analysis of the Darwin's approach to sociality. Sociality is perfectly integrated into the selective model, and is caused by the same process as struggle for existence. Thus, the selective process does not prohibit demonstrating cooperation, but on the contrary, explains it. We will see that the unification of sociality, in a more adequate representation to mammals, is not an expression of a naive anthropomorphism, but of a methodological anthropomorphism; normal consequence of his gradualist approach of phylogeny.