Eight criticisms not to make about group selection

Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1523-1526

  Eldakar, Omar Tonsi ^a   Wilson, David Sloan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group selection; Multilevel selection; Peer review process

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GROUP SELECTION; KNOWLEDGE; LITERATURE REVIEW;

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79958025217     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01290.x     Document Type: Article

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