Three Perspectives on Multilevel Selection: An Experimental, Historical, and Synthetic Analysis of Group-Level Selection

abstract: During the 1960s, the long-standing idea that traits or behaviors could be explained by natural selection acting on traits that persisted "for the good of the group" prompted a series of debates about group-level selection and the effectiveness with which natural selection could...

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Other Authors: Dimond, Christopher C. (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.27395