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Richard Dawkins

“a group, such as a species or a population within a species, whose individual members are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the welfare of the group, may be less likely to go extinct than a rival group whose individual members place their own selfish interests first. Therefore the world becomes populated mainly by groups consisting of self-sacrificing individuals. This is the theory of ‘group selection’,”

Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
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The Selfish Gene The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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