Human social behavior

Human social behavior arose genetically by multilevel evolution. We experience a continuing conflict between components of behavior favored by individual selection and those favored by group selection.

• Individual selection tends to create competitiveness and selfishness among group members.
• Group-level selection tends to create selfless behavior like generosity and altruism within groups, which promotes stronger bondage and strenght of the group as a whole.

An inevitable result of the multi-level selection (individual selection and group selection happening in parallel) is permanent ambiguity in the individual human mind.

It is this very struggle in each person's brain, biologically resulting from evolutionary multi-level selection processes, that is the origin of the humanities.