Sociobiology is the key to understanding human interactions

[Sociobiology]

Consider this thread a primer; more threads will be made in the future to expand upon the information discussed in this thread.

Sociobiology, created by the entomologist E O. Wilson, explores how biological evolution influences social behavior in animals, including humans. Key concepts include: kin selection, inclusive fitness, in-group bias and ingroup loyalty, mate selection strategies, reciprocal altruism, and an evolutionary genetic basis for behavior. The overarching message of Sociobiology is: the purpose of a biological organism is to produce as much of it's DNA into the future, and social behaviors are a means to replicate DNA. This definition does not constitute an ultimate definition to the meaning of life but instead explains that reproduction is a reoccurring and consistent motif found in nature.

In regards to human nature, we essentially evolved eusociality to create war bands of males to fight competing tribes to secure scarce resources and women from the competing tribes. This is the reason why we create ingroup and why humans are patriarchal -- patriarchy is hardcoded. Ancestral humans were not peaceful. Ancestral humans were not egalitarian. Ancestral humans had a clear division of labor. Ancestral humans were extremely xenophobic. Life was not good for Ancestral humans.

Morality evolved as a system to maintain social cooperation of the ingroup through reciprocal action, and is the underlying mechanism that allows for our complex level of social organization. Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations theory provides a reliable framework to explain how morality works. Which is that through evolutionary pressures all human cultures genetically imprinted 6 core moral principles to maintain social cooperation which are:

1. Care/Harm
2. Fairness/Cheating
3. Loyalty/Betrayal
4. Authority/Subversion
5. Sanctity/Degradation
6. Liberty/Oppression.

Furthermore, these moral foundations are expressed by moral emotions which are:

1. Other-condemning emotions (anger, disgust, contempt)
2. Self-conscious emotions (guilt, shame, embarrassment)
3. Other-suffering emotions (compassion/empathy, sympathy)
4. Other-praising emotions (gratitude, elevation, admiration)

It is possible to characterize human history a series of advancements in moral thinking that resulted in sociopolitical changes underpinned by genetic changes in human populations. Over time, our moral systems have shifted from kin-based ethnocentrism to universal rights. This is one of many major historical trend that can be used to predict future events.

Social status is one's value in a social hierarchy. This concept alone enough to prove that equality is

. Social status is highly ingrained in human psychology and determines one's safety, access to resources, social influence, and access to mates. There seems to be two forms of social status: dominance, which is the ability to control others through threat, coercion and force, and status, which is the ability to gain influence through respect and admiration. To climb the social ladder both options must be used strategically. The importance of social status to looksmaxxers is that humans DO select for social status alongside looks, and money; however the underlying genetic components of social status are being selected for rather than someone personal self-made quality.

 

[Sociobiology]

fuck I posted the thread too early.

 

[Cleetus Cornfield]

just bump it later today.

interesting read