Just finished the first half of Unto Others by Sober & Wilson, which deals with group selection and evolutionary theory. Very well worth the read (I suspect I’ll be a bit slow about finishing the second half which deals with psychology). Reflections after the intellectual digestion finishes, but I must say that the individual selectionism that I was taught as an undergraduate is easier to grasp and theoretically more elegant than the “multilevel selection” paradigm that David Sloan Wilson is championing, so his position will probably need an avalanche of evidence before it is more widely accepted.
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