Saturday, May 06, 2006

"Multilevel selection"

It's funny how we abandon words like sociobiology or group selection, as if we are ashamed of them...Anyway, here's a link to "Group Selection" in Wikipedia. They mention that group selection is making a comeback, but Sober & Wilson and others (I suppose) prefer to call it "multilevel selection theory".

1 comment:

Yann Klimentidis said...

thanks for your comment...well it seems that they (Sober and Wilson) are nuancing the term by using "multilevel selection". I haven't read all the reasoning behind this, but I would guess that they want to stress that group selection and individual selection are not mutually independent??

 
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