What do experimental studies tell us about group selection in nature?

American Naturalist

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 596-598

  Getty, Thomas ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Group selection; Multilevel selection; Shifting balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033396955     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303257     Document Type: Note

References (12)

1. Brandon, R. N. 1990. Adaptation and environment. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
2. Coyne, J. A., N. H. Barton, and M. Turelli. 1997. Perspective: a critique of Sewall Wright's shifting balance theory of evolution. Evolution 51:643-671.
3. Goodnight, C. J., and L. Stevens. 1997. Experimental studies of group selection: what do they tell us about group selection in nature? American Naturalist 150(suppl.): S59-S79.
4. Goodnight, C. J., J. M. Schwartz, and L. Stevens. 1992. Contextual analysis of models of group selection and the evolution of altruism. American Naturalist 140: 743-761.
5. Heisler, I. L., and J. D. Damuth. 1987. A method for analyzing selection in hierarchically structured populations. American Naturalist 130:582-602.
6. Lack, D. 1954. The natural regulation of animal numbers. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
7. Sober, E. 1984. Holism, individualism, and the units of selection. Pages 184-209 in E. Sober, ed. Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
8. Wade, M. J. 1977. An experimental study of group selection. Evolution 31:134-153.
9. -. 1978. A critical review of the models of group selection. Quarterly Review of Biology 53:101-114.
10. Wade, M. J., and C. J. Goodnight. 1991. Wright's shifting balance theory: an experimental study. Science (Washington, D.C.) 253:1015-1018.
11. Williams, G. C. 1966. Adaptation and natural selection. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
12. Wilson, D. S. 1997. Altruism and the organism: disentangling the themes of multilevel selection theory. American Naturalist 150(suppl.):S122-S134.