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The radical aristocrat who put kindness on a scientific footing — Lydia Syson

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The story of Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, evolutionary biologist and revolutionary anarcho-socialist.Kropotkin was a forerunner of the theory of group selection based on group fitness as a necessary addition to individual selection based on individual selection in natural selection as the driver of biological evolution. A basis of this theory is synergy, that is, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, so groups that are capable of cooperating and organizing are more successful in meeting environmental challenges and seizing opportunities than individuals alone or less coordinated groups. Coordination has an evolutionary premium.PyscheThe radical aristocrat who put kindness on a scientific footingLydia Syson

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The story of Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, evolutionary biologist and revolutionary anarcho-socialist.
Kropotkin was a forerunner of the theory of group selection based on group fitness as a necessary addition to individual selection based on individual selection in natural selection as the driver of biological evolution. 

A basis of this theory is synergy, that is, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, so groups that are capable of cooperating and organizing are more successful in meeting environmental challenges and seizing opportunities than individuals alone or less coordinated groups. Coordination has an evolutionary premium.

Pysche
The radical aristocrat who put kindness on a scientific footing

Lydia Syson

Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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