Dr. Jim Reads Brooker on Biology, Chapter 55 54.4 -- Climate 54.5 -- Biomes 55 -- Behavioral Ecology 55.1 -- The Influence of Genetics and Learning on Behavior 55.6 -- On Kin Selection and Altruism (Hamilton's Rule: rB > C) 57.2 -- Predation, Herbivory, and Parasitism
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Dr. Jim reads Chapter 10 of Darwin's Origin of Species, On the Imperfection of the Geological Record (Part I to p. 156) On the Imperfection of the Geological Record (Part II to end of Chapter) "We shall, perhaps, Best perceive the difficulty of connecting species by numerous, intermediate fossil links by asking ourselves whether future geologists will be able to prove that are different breeds of cattle, horses and dogs are descended from a single stopped or from several aboriginal stocks. This could be effected only by the discovery in a fossil state of numerous gradations; and such success is improbable in the highest degree." (p. 160) "The great oceans are mainly areas of subsidence, the great archipelagoes areas of oscillations, and the continents areas of elevation. But we have no reason to assume that things have thus remain from the beginning of the world. At period long antecedent to the Cambrian epoch, continents may have existed where Oceans are now spread
Hawley, 2011, The Role of Competition and Cooperation in Shaping Personality "Everyone says you should be nice all the time but no one really is, so if you do what you should band be nice all the time, you're probably gonna get screwed." (Hart, 1998--A Child's Machaivelli: A Primer in Power) "Unrestrained altruism is a strategy that generally does not pay."
Dr. Jim Reads Darwin's Origin of Species, Chapter 8, Part 2 and Part 3 From Richard E. Leakey's Illustrated Origin of Species: Chapter 8, Part 2 Chapter 8, Part 3 "There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding with within the living bodies of caterpillars…" (Charles Darwin in correspondence to Asa Gray (1860) as Quoted in Richard E. Leakey's edited version of Darwin's Origin of Species, p. 143)