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work_r5wl4nrelfcmdafzjiy6qnxlce	Peter Gildenhuys	The Evolution of Altruism: The Sober/Wilson Model	2003	23	.pdf	application/pdf	9130	476	54	I want to contest Sober and Wilson's interpretation of the mathematical model they present in their text by presenting an alternative causal analysis of what is going on when altruism As the number of altruists within the global population grows, it becomes more beneficial for the nonaltruists to freeload, so altruism cannot Altruism promotes the "group fitness" of the subgroups, causing them to grow larger The upshot of Sober and Wilson's model is not that altruism does not cause the reproduction of altruists or the replication of altruistic genes. effects of altruism in each subgroup in Sober and Wilson's model along Altruism, which decreases the fitness of the agent, is correlated with being in the same group as the majority of altruists, a trait hypothesized by Sober and Wilson, altruism causes the reproduction of altruists by increasing One of Sober and Wilson's examples of a population in which random group formation promotes the evolution of altruism	./cache/work_r5wl4nrelfcmdafzjiy6qnxlce.pdf	./txt/work_r5wl4nrelfcmdafzjiy6qnxlce.txt