Sentence examples for group advantage from inspiring English sources

Wright connects this debate to Wynne-Edwards, whom he characterizes as asserting the evolutionary importance of "group selection for group advantage".

He cites Haldane (1932) as the originator of the term "altruist" to denote a phenotype "that contributes to group advantage at the expense of disadvantage to itself" (1980, p. 840).

Wright takes Maynard Smith, Williams and Dawkins to task for mistakenly thinking that because they have successfully criticized group selection for group advantage, they can conclude that "natural selection is practically wholly genic".

Wright distinguishes between what he calls "intergroup selection," that is, interdemic selection in his shifting balance process, and "group selection for group advantage" (1980, p. 840; see Wright 1929 , 1931.

As Maynard Smith puts it, "an explanation in terms of group advantage should always be explicit, and always calls for some justification in terms of the frequency of group extinction" (1976, p. 278; cf. Wade 1978; Wright 1980).

On the other hand, if the process took longer (for example, 500 to 1,000 years) and was associated with differential group advantage between those with and those without, then, following Soltis et al. (1995), cultural group selection could be offered as an explanatory model, thereby allowing a role for biological fitness.

Arguments concerning the group advantages for survival would follow the same line as those concerning the group advantages for reproduction.

For a fully connected network with 4 switches and 12 end systems, the grouping ability coming from grouping strategy is 15 20%, which just coincides with the statistical data (18 22%) from the actual grouping advantage.

Maynard Smith concluded on the basis of his model that the between-group advantage of docility was insufficient to counter the within-group advantage of aggressiveness.

Nevertheless, if the between-group advantage of docility was sufficient to counter the within-group advantage of aggressiveness, then it would count as an example of group selection.

Results are discussed in terms of both 'in-group advantage' and 'display rules' approaches.