Gene Expression  The Audacious Epigone crunches the Pew Religion
Survey and comes up with some more insights….     1. #1 John J
Emerson     February 28, 2008      I was struck by this:
That’s a pretty succinct expression of the fact that economic
competition and biological competition (competition of genes)
are not only two different things, but that there’s a big
tension between them.      The genotype wants one thing, but the
revealed preferences of many phenotypes is for something else.
And economic competition is “culture” rather than “nature”, even
though there must be some genetic substrate making the choice of
economic competition instead of genetic competition possible.
This in turn lends plausibility at least to ideas of some sort
of group or two-level selection.      A natalist cultural
conservative will argue that low fertility shows that our
culture is decadent and will die a horrible death do to
depopulation. There’s a lot wrong with this, though. The
“culture” here is not pornography, homo