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Like someone bloating and sickening from overindulging in industrial sugar, the uncritical moralist overindulges in moral convictions – restlessly driven into a state of deadly fervour devoid of reason and health. What if our modern civilization is plagued with a pandemic, not unlike the obesity pandemic, of overindulgence in maladaptive morals?
Read More1. Introduction A central concept for the understanding of evolutionary theory and subsequent disciplines such as evolutionary game theory or psychology is that of fitness (cf. Millstein 2021, p.5; Alexander 2001, p.1). But: There are few idioms as popular and as regularly misunderstood as the survival of the fittest, which was coined by Herbert Spencer and popularized by Charles Darwin….
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