Towards a general theory of group selection

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1561-1572

  Simon, Burton ^a   Fletcher, Jeffrey A ^b   Doebeli, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evolution of cooperation; Evolution of multicellular organisms; Evolutionary dynamics; Multilevel selection

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; MARKOV CHAIN; MODELING; SELECTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION; PROBABILITY;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84878663087     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01835.x     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Avilés, L. 1986. Sex-ratio bias and possible group selection in the social spiderAnelosimus eximius. Am. Nat.128:1-12.
2. Bowles, S., J.-K. Choi, and A. Hopfensitz . 2003. The co-evolution of individual behaviors and social institutions. J. Theor. Biol. 223:135-147.
3. Champagnat, N., R. Ferriere, and S. Meleard . 2006. Unifying evolutionary dynamics: from individual stochastic processes to macroscopic models. Theor. Popul. Biol. 69:297-321.
4. Darwin, C. 1871. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. Appleton and Company, New York.
5. Fletcher, J. A., and M. Zwick . 2004. Strong altruism can evolve in randomly formed groups. J. Theor. Biol. 228:303-313.
6. Frank, S. A. 1998. Foundations of social evolution Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
7. Gardner, A. 2008. The Price equation. Curr. Biol. 18:R198-R202.
8. Goodnight, C. J. 2005. Multilevel selection: the evolution of cooperation in non kin groups. Popul. Ecol. 47:3-12.
9. Goodnight, C. J., and L. Stevens . 1997. Experimental studies of group selection: what do they tell us about group selection in nature. Am. Nat. 150:S59-S79.
10. Hamilton, W. D. 1964. The genetical evolution of social behavior I and II. J. Theor. Biol. 7:1-52.
11. Hamilton, W. D. 1975. Innate social aptitudes of man: an approach from evolutionary genetics. Pp. 133-155 in R. Fox, ed. Biosocial anthropology. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
12. Karlin, S., and H. M. Taylor . 1975. A first course in stochastic processes. 2nd ed. Academic Press, London, UK.
13. Lehmann, L., and L. Keller . 2006. The evolution of cooperation. A general framework and a classification of models. J. Evol. Biol. 19:1365-1376.
14. Lehmann, L., L. Keller, S. West, and D. Roze . 2007. Group selection and kin selection: two concepts but one process, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104:6736-6739.
15. LeVeque, R. J. 2005. Numerical methods for conservation laws. 2nd ed. Birkhauser, Basel, Switzerland.
16. Marlowe, F. W. 2005. Hunter-gatherers and human evolution. Evol. Anthropol. 14:54-67.
17. Maynard Smith, J. 1964. Group selection and kin selection. Nature 201:1145-1147.
18. Maynard Smith, J., and E. Szathmáry . 1997. The major transitions in evolution. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.
19. Mayo, D. G., and N. L. Gilinsky . 1987. Models of group selection. Philos. Sci. 54:515-538.
20. Okasha, S. 2006. Evolution and the levels of selection. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, UK.
21. Price, G. R. 1970. Selection and covariance. Nature 277:520-521.
22. Price, G. R. 1972. Extension of covariance selection mathematics. Ann. Hum. Genet. 35:485-490.
23. Puhalskii, A. and B. Simon . 2012. Discrete evolutionary birth-death processes and their large population limits. Stoch. Models 28:399-412.
24. Queller, D. C. 1992. Quantitative genetics, inclusive fitness, and group selection. Am. Nat. 139:540-558.
25. Simon, B. 2010. A dynamical model of two-level selection. Evol. Ecol. Res. 12:555-588.
26. Simon, B., J. A. Fletcher, and M. Doebeli . 2012. Hamilton's rule in multi-level selection models. J. Theor. Biol. 299:55-63.
27. Simpson, E. H. 1951. The interpretation of interaction in contingency tables. J. R. Stat. Soc. B 13:238-241.
28. Sober, E., and D. S. Wilson . 1998. Unto others. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.
29. Traulsen, A., and M. A. Nowak . 2006. Evolution of cooperation by multilevel selection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103:10952-10955.
30. van Veelen, M., J. García, M. W. Sabelis, and M. Egas . 2012. Group selection and inclusive fitness are not equivalent; the Price equation vs. models and statistics. J. Theor. Biol. 299:64-80.
31. West, S. A., A. S. Griffin, and A. Gardner . 2008. Social semantics: how useful has group selection been? J. Evol. Biol. 21:374-385.
32. Williams, G. C. 1966. Adaptation and natural selection. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
33. Wilson, D. S. 1987. Altruism in mendelian populations derived from sibling groups: the Haystack model revisited. Evolution 41:1059-1070.
34. Wilson, D. S., and E. O. Wilson . 2007. Rethinking the theoretical foundation of sociobiology. Q Rev. Biol. 82:327-348.
35. Wynne-Edwards, V. C. 1962. Animal dispersion in relation to social behaviour. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh.