A Skeptics' Skeptic by Pigliucci Massimo

Author:Pigliucci, Massimo [Pigliucci, Massimo]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: RationallySpeaking.org
Published: 2013-07-21T23:00:00+00:00

An even broader challenge to the gene's eye view of things has been brought by the resurgence of the idea of group selection, which – in its naïve version – was a primary target of some of Williams' original work that inspired Dawkins. Williams had convincingly shown that there is no such thing as selection for “the good of the species” (a still amazingly popular misreading of the theory of evolution). However, recent work spearheaded by David Sloan Wilson (Binghamton University, NY) and others has succeeded in outlining what realistic conditions can in fact yield group-level selection, and empirical research supporting some group selective scenarios has began to accumulate (this is particularly relevant to the understanding of human evolution, especially evolution mediated by cultural traits).

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