Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution: Historical and Conceptual Issues by Ciprian JelerEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 156 Pages | ISBN : 3319786768 | 3.43 MB
This book puts multilevel selection theory into a much needed historical perspective. This is achieved by discussing multilevel selection in the first half of the twentieth century, the reasons for the energetic rejection of Wynne-Edwards’ group selectionist stance in the 1960s, Elisabeth Lloyd’s contribution to the units of selection debate, Price’s hierarchical equation and its possible interpretations and, finally, species selection in macroevolutionary contexts.