Kin Selection

Pulse of the Planet: Microbes Share the Load

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kin Selection, Antibiotic Resistance, Microbes, Research, Norfloxacin, Antibiotics, Science, Indole, Bacteria, Pulse of the Planet, Green News
Bill Chameides

If we keep using the same antibiotic, the bugs become resistant to it and start causing havoc. The pharmaceutical folks have to head back to the lab to find a new killer antibiotic and the whole thing starts over again.

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New Evidence That Fairness Is More From Nurture Than Nature

Dan Agin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Kin Selection, Markets, Cultural Evolution, Fairness, Altruism, Evolutionary Psychology, Selfishness, Healthy Living News
Dan Agin

For the past several decades there's been a great commotion in the media about the biological roots of altruism and its counterpart selfishness. What saves us all is that reality comes to us not from media pundits.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XIV: Group Selection in the Laboratory

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Evolutionary Models, Group Selection, Multilevel Selection, Politics, Science, Inclusive Fitness, Kin Selection, Truth and Reconciliation, Evolution, Green News
David Sloan Wilson

For the evolutionary community at large, the rules governing the acceptance and rejection of group selection are not a storybook portrayal of science.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XII: Multilevel Selection Theory, Salsa Style

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Selfishness, Evolutionary Models, Group Selection, Altruism, Multilevel Selection, Politics, Inclusive Fitness Theory, Science, Kin Selection, Truth and Reconciliation, Evolution, Politics News
David Sloan Wilson

No matter how the groups are formed, no matter how flexible the choice of behaviors, altruism is locally disadvantageous and requires higher-level selection to evolve.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection XI: Dawkins Protests (Too Much)

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Evolutionary Models, Group Selection, Richard Dawkins, Politics, Science, Kin Selection, The Selfish Gene, Truth and Reconciliation, Evolution, Healthy Living News
David Sloan Wilson

Richard Dawkins did not invent naïve gene selectionism but he spread it far and wide with the publication of The Selfish Gene.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection X: Naïve Gene Selectionism

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Evolutionary Models, Replicators, Group Selection, Naive Gene Selectionism, Politics, Science, Kin Selection, Truth and Reconciliation, Evolution, Politics News
David Sloan Wilson

Even when genes function as replicators, they have no bearing upon the group selection controversy because they function as replicators regardless of which level of selection prevails.

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Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection VIII: Anatomy of a Model

David Sloan Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Science, Group Selection, Kin Selection, Evolutionary Models, Truth and Reconciliation, Politics, Evolution, Politics News
David Sloan Wilson

The haystack model had an enormous impact on the rejection of group selection and the conceptualization of kin selection as an alternative to group selection.

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