Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology

By D. Sloan Wilson, Edward O. Wilson. The Quarterly review of biology, 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science

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Moral Elevation and Moral Beauty: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2016, neutral): “…to explain group-related behavior (although multilevel selection has been controversial, see Haidt, 2012; Wilson, Van Vugt, & O’Gorman, 2008; and Wilson & Wilson, 2007, for the case that humanity’s religious and tribal T hi s do cu m en t is co py ri gh te d by th e A m er ic an Ps yc ho lo…”
Music, biological evolution, and the brain (2010, background): “Social cohesion hypotheses are currently a focus of much interest within music cognition, mirroring a growing interest within biology in natural selection at the level of social groups (e.g., Wilson and Wilson, 2007; Wilson et al., 2008 ).”
Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups (2013, background): “Multilevel selection theory A theoretical framework called multilevel selection (MLS), which includes evolutionary game theory as a special case Okasha, 2006; Sober and Wilson, 1998; Wilson and Wilson, 2007; Wilson, 2011a), is useful for studying the commons ituation in general terms.”
Human prosociality from an evolutionary perspective: variation and correlations at a city-wide scale ☆ (2009, background): “Although it richly documents changes in social capital over time (the main subject of Bowling Alone), it tends not to focus on the relative success of alternative behavioral strategies in game theoretical terms, nor does it emphasize the inherent local instability of prosociality that Wilson and Wi”
Sixteen common misconceptions about the evolution of cooperation in humans (2011, methodology): “These include (A) The new group selection approach has been used to justify old group selection thinking (e.g., Sober & Wilson, 1998; Wilson, 2008; Wilson & Wilson, 2007).”
Social network theory: new insights and issues for behavioral ecologists (2009, background): “Although group selection has not been popular in behavioral ecology, given the right conditions, it remains a potentially important force in the evolution of group and individual traits (Dugatkin and Reeve 1994; Wilson and Wilson 2007).”
Hamilton's legacy: kinship, cooperation and social tolerance in mammalian groups (2014, neutral): “…1971), direct benefits (also called by-product mutualisms: Brown, 1983; Connor, 1995; West-Eberhard, 1975) and group selection (Wilson, 1975; Wilson & Wilson, 2007) have surfaced as potential explanations (reviewed by: Clutton-Brock, 2009; Dugatkin, 2002; Noë, 2006; Nowak, 2006; Queller,…”
The Varieties of Self-Transcendent Experience (2017, background): “Multilevel selection theory acknowledges the highly social, group-ish qualities of human beings by positing that selection occurs at the individual (within-group) and group (betweengroups) levels (Wilson & Wilson, 2007).”
Cultural Evolution: A Review of Theory, Findings and Controversies (2015, background): “Cultural group selection has been criticised along with other theories of group (or multilevel) selection (e.g. Wilson and Wilson 2007) by proponents of kin selection (West et al. 2007, 2011).”
Social semantics: how useful has group selection been? (2008, background): “…anything, it just seems to lead to confusion, through incorrect statements that have no theoretical or empirical basis, such as ‘extra-high relatedness within colonies may be better explained as a consequence rather than a cause of eusociality’ (Wilson & Hölldobler, 2005; Wilson & Wilson, 2007).”
Autocurricula and the Emergence of Innovation from Social Interaction: A Manifesto for Multi-Agent Intelligence Research (2019, background): “Their effects reverberate down the hierarchy, tending to resolve endogenous challenges by aligning the incentives of lower level entities (Henrich, 2004a; Maynard Smith and Szathmary, 1997; Wilson and Wilson, 2007).”
Communication and collective action: language and the evolution of human cooperation (2010, background): “Owing to the unsettled nature of the debate over the importance of group selection (Boyd & Richerson, 2007; Gardner & Grafen, 2009; Leigh, 2009; West, Griffin & Gardner, 2007; Wilson & Wilson, 2007) and the paucity of empirical tests of cultural group selection models, this section will be brief.”