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Dawkins\u2019 gene\u2010centered view remains useful here, not as a moral theory of selfish people, but as a way to track how lower\u2010level selection can destabilize higher\u2010level organization. I argue, however, that cooperation is stabilized by a broader repertoire than external punishment alone. Repeated interaction, partner choice, aligned incentives, and architectural constraints can all make cheating unattractive; in many settings, additional suppressors then make defection costly or unprofitable. On this view, game theory and a multilevel evolutionary lens are complementary. The Folk Theorem shows how cooperative outcomes can be sustained endogenously under patience and monitoring, while biology shows how the informational and structural conditions for such equilibria are themselves produced or maintained. 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