Book review of Nature\'s I.Q. (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 17:03 (5567 days ago) @ George Jelliss

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/211/4489/1390
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
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> In biological terms the concept becomes one of "evolutionary stable strategies". This provides a mathematically justified basis for the evolution of all these symbiotic relationships that DT finds beyond his imagination. - I have reviewed these references and I've read both of Robrt Wright's books, Non-Zero and The Moral Animal, and E.O. Wilson's On Human Nature and I am still of the same mind. We humans are different in kind, and to apply human cooperation to animals and plants is stretching credulity beyond its bounds. They can't think like we do and they cannot imagine altruism. I must conclude, if mutations are random and generally deleterious, with a series of lucky contingencies, these symbiotic relationships are miraculous.