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Anthony Costello
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The Social Edge: The Power of Sympathy Groups for our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future
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IMPROVING NEWBORN INFANT HEALTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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2000
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“In modern societies we need no reminders about how immigrants are the first to face blame, rejection or attack, especially at times of economic stress or austerity. Nor that people who suffer discrimination are often ‘different’ in their sexual orientation, religious allegiance and disability, or because they contravene cultural norms: teetotallers, vegetarians, transgender people or supporters of the wrong football team.”
― The Social Edge: The Power of Sympathy Groups for our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future
― The Social Edge: The Power of Sympathy Groups for our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future
“There are one or two variations to this rule: a post-reproductive animal or human can afford to be totally altruistic from a genetic point of view. Grandmas and elderly spinster aunts have great evolutionary value. (We shall return to the role of grandmothers in co-operative nurturing of children.) And the menopause gives a human mother more time to perform her child-rearing and educational role, freed from the duties of reproduction, which tend to limit her selfless streak.”
― The Social Edge: The Power of Sympathy Groups for our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future
― The Social Edge: The Power of Sympathy Groups for our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future
“So how can genetics explain altruistic scenarios? In 1964, WD Hamilton proposed a ‘model of inclusive fitness’ which suggested “no one is prepared to sacrifice his life for any single person but that everyone will sacrifice it when he can thereby save more than two brothers, or four half-brothers, or eight first cousins …” Conversely, while selfish behaviour against immediate siblings or close relatives will not evolve, from a gene’s point of view, “it is worthwhile to deprive a large number of distant relatives in order to extract a small reproductive advantage.”54”
― The Social Edge: The Power of Sympathy Groups for our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future
― The Social Edge: The Power of Sympathy Groups for our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future
