THE FALSE ALLURE OF GROUP SELECTION

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Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, result): “Third, in contrast to recent accounts of moral disgust that have been couched in group selection processes (e.g., Haidt, 2007, 2012), we offer alternative approaches based on individual-level selection pressures (see discussion in Pinker, 2012).”
What Is the Function of Confirmation Bias? (2020, methodology): “One of the issues is that since individuals reproduce faster than groups, a trait T that is an adaptation that is good for groups but bad for an individual’s fitness won’t spread, because the rate of proliferation of groups is undermined by the evolutionary disadvantage of T within groups (Pinker 20”
Intergroup bias in third-party punishment stems from both ingroup favoritism and outgroup discrimination (2014, background): “Assuming that we have originated from small groups in which average genetic relatedness was high, natural selection might have engineered us with the propensity to treat ingroup members like kin (Pinker, 2012).”
The when and who of social learning and conformist transmission (2016, unknown): “Conformist transmission is particularly important, because it tends to homogenize behavior within groups, increasing between group variation relative to within group variation (Boyd & Richerson, 1985; Henrich & Boyd, 1998), strengthening the effect of intergroup competition on cultural variation (Ch”