Philosophy of Biology
Levels of Selection 149 fitness within evolutionary theory so that there is little or no room for evolutionary altruism. For it ...
150 Robert A. Wilson such as the gene, as part of an overarchingmultilevelapproach to understanding natural selection [Wilson an ...
Levels of Selection 151 the kind of sloganeering that has crept into the study of science. Monists/realists think there is One T ...
152 Robert A. Wilson by considering cases in which just a single unit of selection is involved: although there is an overall plu ...
Levels of Selection 153 it is put in this way, model pluralism seems to imply a form of anti-realism about the levels of selecti ...
154 Robert A. Wilson that, unlike Sterelny, Sober and Wilson think that this is rather often the case. Quite a different concept ...
Levels of Selection 155 (or a gene’s) environment. But this doesn’t mean that groups themselves are agents of selection, any mor ...
156 Robert A. Wilson integrated conspecific and inter-specific groups, and some manifest traits that we usually consider to be s ...
Levels of Selection 157 history of life, certainly within the first billion years of that history. Likewise, the idea that Dawki ...
158 Robert A. Wilson [Dugatkin, 2002]L. A. Dugatkin. Will Peace Follow?Biology and Philosophy17: 519-522, 2002. [Dugatkin and Re ...
Levels of Selection 159 [Hamilton, 1963]W. D. Hamilton. The Evolution of Altruistic Behavior,American Naturalist, 97:354-356, 19 ...
160 Robert A. Wilson [Nesse and Williams, 1994]R. M. Nesse and G. C. Williams.Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medi ...
Levels of Selection 161 [Vrba and Gould, 1986]E. S. Vrba and S.J. Gould. The Hierarchical Expansion of Sorting and Selection: So ...
162 Robert A. Wilson [Wilson, 2004]R. A. Wilson. Test Cases, Resolvability, and Group Selection: A Critical Exam- ination of the ...
WHAT IS EVOLVABILITY? Kim Sterelny 1 THE METAZOA AND THE VOLVOCACEANS: TWO CONTRASTING FAT E S For free-living unicellular proti ...
164 Kim Sterelny volvocaceans are clearly structured collectives. InVolvox carterithere is a clear specialisation between somati ...
What Is Evolvability? 165 that form the adult organism then largely take place without further growth. The initial process of ce ...
166 Kim Sterelny role in policing outlaws — the establishment of the germ-soma distinction — also constrains somatic cell divers ...
What Is Evolvability? 167 All other things being equal, increases in the supply of variation increase the evolutionary response ...
168 Kim Sterelny few will do much better. In my view, evolvability is not a selectable trait, even though mutation rate may be. ...
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