Darwin et la socialit\'e : entre anthropomorphisme et gradualisme

TL;DR

This paper analyzes Darwin's approach to sociality, arguing that his gradualist view integrates social behaviors into natural selection, explaining cooperation without naive anthropomorphism.

Contribution

It clarifies how Darwin's gradualist perspective justifies social behaviors within the evolutionary framework, emphasizing methodological anthropomorphism.

Findings

Sociality is integrated into natural selection.

Cooperation is explained by the same process as struggle for existence.

Darwin's approach avoids naive anthropomorphism through methodological considerations.

Abstract

We propose, in this article, an analysis of the Darwin's approach to sociality. Sociality is perfectly integrated into the selective model, and is caused by the same process as struggle for existence. Thus, the selective process does not prohibit demonstrating cooperation, but on the contrary, explains it. We will see that the unification of sociality, in a more adequate representation to mammals, is not an expression of a naive anthropomorphism, but of a methodological anthropomorphism; normal consequence of his gradualist approach of phylogeny.