Evolution "for the Good of the Group The process known as group selection was once accepted unthinkingly, then was widely discredited; it's time for a more discriminating assessment
By D. Sloan Wilson, Edward O. Wilson. 2008
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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/956ad8cb66f67593e36b92ea71e400882acd8788
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In Sociology and Political Science
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