Evolution and the Levels of Selection

By Patrick Forber. 2008

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals (2012, background): ““E PLURIBUS UNUM”: The Negotiated Surveillance of Parts and Wholes Negotiated surveillance is a general mechanism that has evolved to permit the incorporation of potentially self-replicating parts into coherent wholes (see Maynard Smith and Szathmáry 1995; Michod and Roze 1997; Okasha 2003, 2006).”
Signals: evolution, learning, and information (2012, background): “One slight oddity of Skyrms’s discussion here is that he does not at all consider the many recent group selectionist attempts at making sense of the evolution of (altruistic) cooperation see e.g. Sober and Wilson (1998); Okasha (2006).”
Neuronal boost to evolutionary dynamics (2015, background): “An exciting question is about the possible scope of multi-level selection (MLS; [38]) in this framework.”
Holobionts as Units of Selection and a Model of Their Population Dynamics and Evolution (2018, background): “(2013) did, treating the community represented by the holobiont as the group, with its own traits and heredity (Wilson 1980; Goodnight 1990a, b, 2005; Okasha 2006; Sterelny 2011; Drown and Wade 2014).”
A New Foundation for the Propensity Interpretation of Fitness (2013, methodology): “) We will begin with the sketch offered by Ramsey’s ‘block fitness’ ([2006]), attempting to provide it with some mathematical rigour.”
Social semantics: how useful has group selection been? (2008, background): “Again, this is undesirable, as group selection should not be in operation when all groups have the same fitness (Okasha, 2006).”
Explanation in Biology: Reduction, Pluralism, and Explanatory Aims (2011, neutral): “This underscores again the difference between prediction and explanation: all correlations can be used for the purposes of prediction, but correlation need not imply causation, as required for causal explanation.”
The Problem of Biological Individuality (2010, background): “…of this type define the biological individual as something that necessarily possesses “policing mechanisms” (Buss 1983; Boyd and Richerson 1992; Frank 1995, 2003; Michod and Nedelcu 2003; Okasha 2006), “anti-subversion devices” (Godfrey-Smith 2009), or “conflict modifiers” (Michod and Roze 2001).”
Evolvable Neuronal Paths: A Novel Basis for Information and Search in the Brain (2011, background): “Units of evolution [1] at the same level of selection [2] are generally considered to be discrete non-overlapping individuals, for example, living organisms, B-cells undergoing somatic selection, ribozymes in the RNA world, and binary strings in a genetic algorithm.”
Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans (2011, neutral): “3; Okasha, 2004, 2006; West et al., 2007b, 2008 ).”
Conditions for Evolution by Natural Selection (2007, background): “Standard formulations are subject to counterexamples, and their relations to formal models of evolutionary change are not straightforward (Okasha 2007).”
Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology (2007, methodology): “To make matters more confusing, each major framework comes in a number of varieties (e.g., Fletcher and Zwick 2006; Okasha 2006; West et al. 2007; D S Wilson 2007a).”
Selectionist and Evolutionary Approaches to Brain Function: A Critical Appraisal (2012, methodology): “…– as we have seen – selection does apply to neuronal groups in terms of the Price equation, and the Price equation has been used to describe aspects of multilevel selection (Heisler and Damuth, 1987; Damuth and Heisler, 1988), including those of the major transitions in evolution (Okasha, 2006).”