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From the Ted Talk by Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence

Unscramble the Blue Letters


But suppose then that one of them mtueats. There's a mutation in the gene and one of them mutates to follow a selfish strategy. It takes advantage of the others. And so when a green interacts with a blue, you'll see the green gets larger and the blue gets slmaelr. So here's how things play out. We start with just one geern, and as it irtnceats it gains wealth or points or food. And in short oerdr, the cooatropers are done for. The free-riders have taken over. If a group cannot solve the free-rider problem then it cannot reap the benefits of cooperation and group selection cannot get started.

Open Cloze


But suppose then that one of them _______. There's a mutation in the gene and one of them mutates to follow a selfish strategy. It takes advantage of the others. And so when a green interacts with a blue, you'll see the green gets larger and the blue gets _______. So here's how things play out. We start with just one _____, and as it _________ it gains wealth or points or food. And in short _____, the ___________ are done for. The free-riders have taken over. If a group cannot solve the free-rider problem then it cannot reap the benefits of cooperation and group selection cannot get started.

Solution


  1. smaller
  2. cooperators
  3. order
  4. mutates
  5. interacts
  6. green

Original Text


But suppose then that one of them mutates. There's a mutation in the gene and one of them mutates to follow a selfish strategy. It takes advantage of the others. And so when a green interacts with a blue, you'll see the green gets larger and the blue gets smaller. So here's how things play out. We start with just one green, and as it interacts it gains wealth or points or food. And in short order, the cooperators are done for. The free-riders have taken over. If a group cannot solve the free-rider problem then it cannot reap the benefits of cooperation and group selection cannot get started.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

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group selection 4
talk today 2
william james 2
world war 2
war ii 2
homo duplex 2
staircase takes 2
charles darwin 2
human groups 2
modern life 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
world war ii 2

Important Words


  1. advantage
  2. benefits
  3. blue
  4. cooperation
  5. cooperators
  6. follow
  7. food
  8. gains
  9. gene
  10. green
  11. group
  12. interacts
  13. larger
  14. mutates
  15. mutation
  16. order
  17. play
  18. points
  19. problem
  20. reap
  21. selection
  22. selfish
  23. short
  24. smaller
  25. solve
  26. start
  27. started
  28. strategy
  29. suppose
  30. takes
  31. wealth