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serve these characteristics? The appearance of just one selfish individual
in such a society will be able to hand on a higher level of selfish attribut-
es to later generations, because that individual will fail to sacrifice itself.
Another unclarified point is that if evolution takes place on the societal
level, what the dimensions of that society will be. Family? Herd/Flock?
Species? Order? What would happen if the results of the evolution taking
place at more than one level if these were to be incompatible with one an-
other? 378

Nature is not a bat tle ground in which on ly the fit -
test sur vive, as ev o lu tion ists would have us be -
lieve. On the con tra ry, it is filled with count less
ex am ples of al tru ism and of ra tion al co-op er a tion.
Many an i mals even risk death, and self-sac ri fice
for the sake of their young or herd-which rep re -
sents no ad van tage to the in di vid u al con cerned.