tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5221265792249021471.post5118552904780300348..comments2023-07-04T13:26:12.423+02:00Comments on PermaLiv.MyPortfolio.com: The Handicap Principle is a Force for Good or EvilUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5221265792249021471.post-90894242912230258442014-09-29T07:08:14.230+02:002014-09-29T07:08:14.230+02:00"The Prince of Evolution offers a tantalizing..."The Prince of Evolution offers a tantalizing peek into the life and ideas of a man Dugatkin calls “one of the world’s first international celebrities,” someone who filled auditoriums throughout Europe, England, and the United States with talks ranging from biology to anarchy to Russian literature. Kropotkin was a thinker whose ideas were so large that a single discipline could not contain them, and they were thought to be so dangerous that he was arrested multiple times and spent lengthy prison terms in Russia and France for communicating them. Part of what made him such a threat to the monarchs of Europe, Dugatkin suggests, was that Kropotkin refused to accept any authority that wasn’t based on scientific principles. He urged people everywhere to reject illegitimate tyranny and to use the tools of critical thinking and science to build a more equitable society themselves.” (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/primate-diaries/2011/09/13/prince-of-evolution/)"<br /><br />http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-the-prince-of-evolution/2014/09/29<br /><br />There might be that the Research Council of Norway represents today's "kings"?<br /><br />“He generally had a negative view of capitalism but, even more important, was his work on mutual aid in human evolution from early on through the medieval period. His research showed that over and over again people figured out a way to create small, interacting cooperative groups like the guilds in the Middle Ages. But the problem he found was that, as soon as these cooperative groups emerged, it immediately created selection pressures that favored parasites. These parasites would come in and suck up what they needed from individuals who were being good to one another and, eventually, cause the society to crumble. So, certainly, Kropotkin would not have been at all surprised by what has happened today.<br /><br />I think this gets to the episodic nature of social change in Kropotkin’s view. As soon as you establish a cooperative society, you immediately create these dramatic forces that favor cheating. The question of how to stop that was one that Kropotkin was obsessed with.” (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/primate-diaries/2011/09/13/prince-of-evolution/)<br /><br />These parasites are probably what Bongard names "the Hawks", and this problem would be prevented with his RID-Model.<br /><br />Wonder how Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin's theories would have looked like if he had known about the handicap principle, which is the underlying force of sexual selection?Øyvind Holmstadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04750850581311963220noreply@blogger.com