Evolution selective advantage

Evolution by the selection of newly appearing mutants, which by virtue of a selective advantage disobey the condition crm > 1 and thus destabilize the dominance of the wild-type. 

Possible selective advantages of this association of catalytic sites in the course of evolution could be ... 

Nesse My favourite example of a cultural creation that people have tried to propose evolutionary explanations for is religion. I m in the midst of editing a book about this, called The evolution of subjective commitment. It seems plausible to me that natural selection has created in us, because of its selective advantage, the capacity to make irrational subjective commitments to ideologies as well as to other people. Once we have this capacity, it creates social structures. Once those social structures exist, they create new selective forces. There is co-evolution, not just of language and the like, but of social selective forces and brain mechanisms, that leads us to a wonderful complexity. 

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