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From: jabowery@netcom.com (Jim Bowery)
Subject: Re: Evolving Altruistic behaviour in an Alife Ecosystem
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Whoa!  

Were you aware that ethologists _start_ their explanatory paradigms with 
kin altruism and resort to reciprocal altruism only when kin altruism 
seems insufficient to explain the observed phenomena?

I strongly suggest you read Oliphant's papers and then proceed to related 
work in ethology.

PS:  I find this particular blind spot among a-lifers to be quite 
interesting.
-- 
The promotion of politics exterminates apolitical genes in the population.
  The promotion of frontiers gives apolitical genes a route to survival.
                 Change the tools and you change the rules.
