The rejection of group selection in the 1960s was based on three arguments, like the legs of a stool [...]
David Sloan Wilson and Edward O. Wilson, “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology“, in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 82, No. 4, December 2007, p. 331.
hahahaha!
I must be dense.
A stool with 3 legs is more stable than a stool with 4, in design/engineering terms.. so.. in a really strange sense.. it’s not totally & completely unenlightening. If you’re a designer.
Perhaps.
Ah..Hm.