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Old 04-20-2003, 10:20 AM   #5 (permalink)
John Henry
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Absolutely, but bear in mind that even today, most people have a very similar genome to their neighbours. So if people behave towards each other in a way which means people with similar genes survive, that genome will survive. If you have a village of people who are too busy killing each other to gather any food, their genome won't survive. Of course it's a bit more complex than that, because it's an emergent phenomenon, but it boils down to the same thing.
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