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Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution - Historical and Conceptual Issues (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution - Historical and Conceptual Issues (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This book puts multilevel selection theory into a much needed
historical perspective. This is achieved by discussing multilevel
selection in the first half of the twentieth century, the reasons
for the energetic rejection of Wynne-Edwards' group selectionist
stance in the 1960s, Elisabeth Lloyd's contribution to the units of
selection debate, Price's hierarchical equation and its possible
interpretations and, finally, species selection in
macroevolutionary contexts. Another idea also seems to emerge from
these studies; namely, that perhaps a more sure-footed position for
multilevel selection theory would be acquired if we were to show a
renewed interest in 'old group selection', i.e. in scenarios in
which the differential reproduction of the groups themselves
affects the frequencies of either individual-level or group-level
traits. This book will be of interest to philosophers and
historians of biology, as well as to theoretically inclined
biologists who have an interest in multilevel selection theory.
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