I am starting to wonder if this “standard view” thing is a bit of a straw man. Most of the stuff WrongBot describes that is supposedly outside the standard view, I learned in college anthropology/bio/psych classes, so it can’t be too nonstandard. I could agree that some positions in the supposed “standard view” used to be more common, but I think that they have been debunked enough that they aren’t really standard anymore.
I don’t see how kin selection and alloparenting fall outside the standard view.
I am starting to wonder if this “standard view” thing is a bit of a straw man. Most of the stuff WrongBot describes that is supposedly outside the standard view, I learned in college anthropology/bio/psych classes, so it can’t be too nonstandard. I could agree that some positions in the supposed “standard view” used to be more common, but I think that they have been debunked enough that they aren’t really standard anymore.
Agreed—I was under the impression that kin selection based on % relatedness was a fairly basic prediction of standard evolutionary theory.
It absolutely is! Wikipedia even has a subsection entitled kin selection in evolutionary Psychology!