e o wilsonism

 “Selfishness beats altruism within groups.  Altruistic groups beat selfish groups.”

 

" only two per cent of insect species are eusocial, but they account for approximately eighty per cent of all insect biomass"

Sex allocation 

Policing

Conflict resolution 

Cooperation 

Altruism 

Spite 

Kin discrimination 

Parasite virulence 

Parent–offspring conflict 

Sibling conflict 

Selfish genetic elements 

Cannibalism 

Dispersal 

Alarm calls 

Eusociality 

Genomic imprinting



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with a model
that suggests rarity :
there are natural " barriers to the evolution of eusociality.."
".it requires a set of unusual mutations
 and very particular ecological conditions."

one thinks of spinoza's closure on escaping human bondage
while remianing within the human condition

"If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result seems exceedingly hard, it may nevertheless be discovered.

Needs must it be hard, since it is so seldom found.

 How would it be possible, if salvation were ready to our hand,
 and could without great labour be found,
that it should be by almost all men neglected?

 But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare "