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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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.27395 |