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Altruism, Group Selection and Correlated Interaction
Ist Teil von
The British journal for the philosophy of science, 2005-12, Vol.56 (4), p.703-725
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Group selection is one acknowledged mechanism for the evolution of altruism. It is well known that for altruism to spread by natural selection, interactions must be correlated; that is, altruists must tend to associate with one another. But does group selection itself require correlated interactions? Two possible arguments for answering this question affirmatively are explored. The first is a bad argument, for it rests on a product/process confusion. The second is a more subtle argument, whose validity (or otherwise) turns on issues concerning the meaning of multi-level selection and how it should be modelled. A cautious defence of the second argument is offered. IntroductionMulti-level selection and the evolution of altruismPrice's equation and multi-level selectionContextual analysis and multi-level selectionThe neighbour approachRecapitulation and conclusion