KIN SELECTION AND INCLUSIVE FITNESS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY PART II. COULD THEY BE RELATED TO NEW TESTAMENT EXPLANATIONS OF ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOUR?

This paper in both Part I & II examines the theories of inclusive fitness and kin selection and their relationship to New Testament considerations of cooperation and altruism. It discusses how these theories have been developed and what they represent in Evolutionary biology and Psychology. In evolutionary psychology, altruism has also a social care component where individuals who bestow favours onto non-kin enable the society or community at large to thrive and prosper. Group selection effects on kin selection and the exaptation effect on inclusive fitness are also visited in Part II of this paper. The central thesis of Part II is that altruism and cooperation are not only of importance in evolutionary approaches but to anthropological issues deriving from New Testament texts. Thus, a cooperative attitude, including altruistic sacrifice, is explained as a prerequisite for adaptation and survival in sustaining and cultivating progressive societies.