Multilevel Selection and the Theory of Evolution Historical and Conceptual Issues /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jeler, Ciprian (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy and science.; Evolutionary biology.; Philosophy of Science.; Evolutionary Biology.

This book puts multilevel selection theory into a much needed historical perspective. This is achieved by discussing multilevel selection in the first half of the twentieth century, the reasons for the energetic rejection of Wynne-Edwards' group selectionist stance in the 1960s, Elisabeth Lloyd...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction; Ciprian Jeler
• Part I. Historical issues
• 2. The Roots of Multilevel Selection Theory; Abraham H. Gibson, Christina L. Kwapich, and Martha Lang
• 3. Tales of a failed scientific revolution; Mihail-Valentin Cernea
• 4. Equivalence, Interactors, and Lloyd's Challenge to Genic Pluralism; Ryan Ketcham
• Part II. Conceptual issues
• 5. Price's hierarchical equation and the notion of group fitness; Ciprian Jeler
• 6. A backward question about multilevel selection; Andreea Eşanu
• Index.