Much of the evolutionary debate since Darwin has focused on the
level at which natural selection occurs. Most biologists
acknowledge multiple levels of selection - from the gene to the
species. The debate about group selection, however, is the focus of
Mark E. Borrello's "Evolutionary Restraints". Tracing the history
of biological attempts to determine whether selection leads to the
evolution of fitter groups, Borrello takes as his focus the British
naturalist V. C. Wynne-Edwards, who proposed that animals could
regulate their own populations and thus avoid overexploitation of
their resources. By the mid-twentieth century, Wynne-Edwards became
an advocate for group selection theory and led a debate that
engaged the most significant evolutionary biologists of his time,
including Ernst Mayr, G. C. Williams, and Richard Dawkins. This
important dialogue bled out into broader conversations about
population regulation, environmental crises, and the evolution of
human social behavior. By examining a single facet of the long
debate about evolution, Borrello provides powerful insight into an
intellectual quandary that remains relevant and alive to this day.
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