The companion-species hypothesis

in eusociality •  7 years ago 

How can genetically prescribed selfless behaviour arise by natural selection, which is seemingly its antithesis?[1] In humans, I have proposed that eusociality could be the result of a two-species society, and that many of the traits that exist today evolved in a two-species context, with Paranthropus as a companion-species, similar to dogs, cattle and horses today.

The gene pool may not allow certain hierarchies to form, and a natural hierarchy between Australopithecines and Paranthropus as a companion-species could have supported the evolution of caste-based organization and Theory of Mind (ToM).

The interbreeding event 6 million years ago

As Popadin et al showed last year[2], the Paranthropus lineage resulted from interbreeding between ancestors of gorilla, and the common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and Paranthropus, 6 million years ago.

References

  1. The Evolution of Eusociality

  2. Mitochondrial pseudogenes suggest repeated inter-species hybridization in hominid evolution

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Glad to see this post after a very long time seems like you were busy in other researching stuff :)

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Awesome post,thanks a lot for sharing with us.

I am not sure if we can as humans mutate like that but your post is very compelling.

Paranthropus were a different evolutionary lineage, Google "paranthropus".

The "companion-species" posits that the reason humans mutated towards eusociality (evident in that you have technology like books, houses and blockhains) is that a two-species scenario was a favourable environment for that.

So, humans have mutated towards eusociality, and that paralleled the advent of technology (eusociality extends memetic cognition, pre-requisite for technology) so it dates back a long time.