Evolutionary biologists understand that adaptation increases reproductive success.<\/p>\n
An adaptation that increased intragroup conflict, in the milieu of intergroup competition, would require a correspondingly large adaptive advantage for the individual or for the group itself.<\/p>\n
What would be the advantage of infantile mimetic rivalry, of \u201cme wanting the same thing as you, because you wanted it, as if I came up with the idea myself\u201d?<\/p>\n
I find it hard to imagine an adaptive advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Evolutionary biologists understand that adaptation increases reproductive success. An adaptation that increased intragroup conflict, in the milieu of intergroup competition, would require a correspondingly large adaptive advantage for the individual or for the group itself. What would be the advantage of infantile mimetic rivalry, of \u201cme wanting the same thing as you, because you wanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-the-scapegoat-girard"],"yoast_head":"\n