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"Most people understand that sexual lust has do to with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those of lust. In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reaseon for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups. But that seems to me to be a highly plausible account for where the desire for morality, the desire for goodness, comes from."
Richard Dawkins, discutindo com Francis Collins sobre Deus e Ciência na revista americana Time, de 13 de Novembro de 2006. Collins argumentava que o altruísmo não poderia existir em uma sociedade de genes egoístas.
Conclusão pra quem não entendeu: estava pensando como o altruísmo poderia ter surgido numa comunidade de genes egoístas. Dawkins diz que ajudamos os outros porque nossa espécie evoluiu em pequenas sociedades onde existiam apenas parentes dentro do grupo das pessoas com quem convivíamos e, portanto, evoluimos ajudando todos à nossa volta. Hoje, o "todos" contém pessoas desconhecidas, mas como não evoluimos assim, queremos ajudá-los mesmo que não tenhamos laço de parentesco com eles. É um problema da diferença de "como evoluimos biologicamente" e "como evoluimos socialmente".
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Por que ajudamos os outros, segundo Dawkins
"Most people understand that sexual lust has do to with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those of lust. In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good deeds. It doesn't matter. Just as people engaged in sex with contraception are not aware of being motivated by a drive to have babies, it doesn't cross our mind that the reaseon for do-gooding is based in the fact that our primitive ancestors lived in small groups. But that seems to me to be a highly plausible account for where the desire for morality, the desire for goodness, comes from."
Richard Dawkins, discutindo com Francis Collins sobre Deus e Ciência na revista americana Time, de 13 de Novembro de 2006. Collins argumentava que o altruísmo não poderia existir em uma sociedade de genes egoístas.
Conclusão pra quem não entendeu: estava pensando como o altruísmo poderia ter surgido numa comunidade de genes egoístas. Dawkins diz que ajudamos os outros porque nossa espécie evoluiu em pequenas sociedades onde existiam apenas parentes dentro do grupo das pessoas com quem convivíamos e, portanto, evoluimos ajudando todos à nossa volta. Hoje, o "todos" contém pessoas desconhecidas, mas como não evoluimos assim, queremos ajudá-los mesmo que não tenhamos laço de parentesco com eles. É um problema da diferença de "como evoluimos biologicamente" e "como evoluimos socialmente".
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Imagine um alelo (ou haplótipo) existente na população humana ancestral para a obesidade. Como a disponibilidade de comida naquele ambiente era baixa, ninguém era gordo e, portanto, talvez um sujeito que tivesse uma genética de obeso, não tivesse...
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"The text seeks to understand the relationship between means of communication and transportation in society and stresses the impact of new electronic devices on people’s lives and, especially, on their holidays and free time. Having as a base the empirical...
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