tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post8452631982263520262..comments2024-03-04T15:09:00.479-08:00Comments on The Scientific Worldview: The Evolution of AltruismGlenn Borchardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09394474754821945146noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-78765005171032778952010-12-12T01:30:45.910-08:002010-12-12T01:30:45.910-08:00I'm thrilled you took the time and said that p...I'm thrilled you took the time and said that post!!<br /><br /> Sincerest regards,<br />RosarioAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-80361844254727661032010-12-11T18:20:04.075-08:002010-12-11T18:20:04.075-08:00A comment from Bill Howell:
Thank for your explan...A comment from Bill Howell:<br /><br />Thank for your explanation re: altruism. Your concrete example with the bee helped me see how looking at things from a univironmental perspective can explain specific evolutionary questions. It also made me realize that I was still trying to comprehend it thru the filters of the existing worldviews (I guess paradigm shifts don’t occur overnight :-). While the existence of mutualism and commensalism are easy to explain in evolutionary terms, I felt that altruism represented a distinctly different phenomenon. The univironmental perspective can explain altruism as just another flavor of the ‘biophysiochemical’ behavior that evolution can create. <br /> <br />For example, Wikipedia states that’ ‘vampire bats demonstrate a sense of reciprocity and altruism. They share blood by regurgitation, but do not share randomly. They are most likely to share with other bats that have shared with them in the past and who are in dire need of feeding because bats who haven't fed in three days risk death from starvation’. It must be difficult for evolution to produce a high-metabolism flying mammal of that size which can go longer than 3 days without food, and so bats developed social behaviors such as food-sharing to occupy that niche in a successful/sustainable manner.<br /><br />Bill HowellGlenn Borchardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394474754821945146noreply@blogger.com