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4 unusual facts about Unit of selection


Unit of selection

Elisabeth Lloyd's book The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory provides a basic philosophical introduction to the debate.

Leo Buss in his book The Evolution of Individuality proposes that much of the evolution of development in metazoans reflects the conflict between selective pressures acting at the level of the cell and those acting at the level of the multicellular individual.

Elisabeth Lloyd (1988) The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory, Greenwood Press (Reprinted Princeton University Press, 1994 ISBN 0-691-00046-8).

Sober, Elliott (1984; 1993) The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus.



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