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    Weak altruism and strong altruism should not be co-classified.

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    • 1.Weak altruism can evolve without donor-recipient correlation
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    • 2.Strong altruism cannot evolve without donor-recipient correlation
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    • 3.Weak and strong altruism therefore evolve by different evolutionary mechanisms
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    • 1.Functional classification in biology legitimately groups traits by phenotypic effects on fitness differentials, not by generative mechanisms.
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    • 2.Both weak and strong altruism share the same phenotypic criterion: the donor incurs a fitness cost relative to non-donors in the same population.
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    • 3.Sober and Wilson's homeostatic property cluster account of natural kinds supports co-classification when traits share stable functional profiles, regardless of mechanistic divergence.
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    • 1.Kitcher's argument against mechanistic individualism in biology shows that privileging causal mechanism over functional role in taxonomy leads to gerrymandered, explanatorily impoverished categories.
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    • 2.Distinguishing weak from strong altruism by mechanism alone risks obscuring the unified explanatory target—other-benefiting behavior at fitness cost—that sociobiology and ethics both seek to explain.
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    (As before, Prob(W partner/W) denotes the conditional probability of having a weakly altruistic partner given that one is weakly altruistic oneself, and so-on.) From these expressions, it is easy to see that W(W) > W(N) even if the there is no correlation among partners, i.e., even if Prob(W partner/W) = P(W partner/N) and P(N partner/W) = P(N partner/N). Therefore, weak altruism can evolve in the absence of donor-recipient correlation; as we saw, this is not true of strong altruism. So weak
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