Multilevel selection and the theory of evolution : historical and conceptual issues /
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Preface; Contents; Editor and Contributors; 1 Introduction; Abstract; References; Part I Historical Issues: Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution During the Twentieth Century; 2 The Roots of Multilevel Selection Theory: Concepts of Biological Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century; Abstract; 1 Cell/Metazoan; The Enigmatic Sponge and Its Multilevel Individuality; 2 Metazoan/Population; Social Insect Colonies as True Individuals; 3 Population/Community; Plant Ecology and the Multi-species Organism; 4 Individuality Research During the Cold War, 1945-1989
- 5 Multilevel Selection and the Declaration of Interdependence, 1989 and BeyondReferences; 3 Tales of a Failed Scientific Revolution. Wynne-Edwards' Animal Dispersion; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 A Short History of Wynne-Edwards' Revolutionary Ideas and Some of the Reactions They Provoked; Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behavior; Reactions to Animal Dispersion; 3 Theoretical Underpinnings; Wynne-Edwards' Notion of Selection; Neo-Darwinians vs. Wynne-Edwards. The (in)Effectiveness of Group Selection; A Puzzle About Groups; 4 Conclusion; References
- 4 Equivalence, Interactors, and Lloyd's Challenge to Genic PluralismAbstract; 1 Introduction: Asking the Right Questions; 2 Interactors on a Train; 3 The Surprising Reception to Lloyd's Interactors; 4 Pluralism and Rescuing the Gene's Eye View; 5 Interactors and Adequate Representation; 6 Conclusion: Interactors as Units of Selection; References; Part II Conceptual Issues: Higher-level Causes, Fitnesses and Traits; 5 Price's Hierarchical Equation and the Notion of Group Fitness; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Basic Assumptions of Usual Applications of Price's Hierarchical Equation
- 3 A Slightly Different Look at Price's Hierarchical Equation4 Discussion: Potential Objections and Benefits; References; 6 A Backward Question About Multilevel Selection: Can Species Selection Help Disentangle the Notion of Group Selection?; Abstract; 1 A Sketch of the Argument; 2 What Is Species Selection Broadly?; 3 A Controversy About the Explanatory Function of Species Selection; 4 Strict Species Selection: Experimental Design and Theory Expansion; 5 Concluding Remarks; References; Index