Here was a way to explain the evolution of altruism -- among genealogical relatives, at least -- without invoking group selection.
If behaviors evolve that appear to be "for the good of the group", then they must be explained without invoking group selection.
I don't want to overstate the degree of censorship and persecution that people have suffered by daring to invoke group selection.
That did not alter the patriotic history, however, which is still dutifully reported in text books and transmitted as an oral tradition among graduate students, who warn each other not to invoke group selection in the presence of their faculty advisors.
Ecological organisations that produce collective behaviours can arise from the positive feedback of individual natural selection and ecological population dynamics without invoking group selection.
A leader can invoke a group of white humans or yellow humans to kill a group of black humans or red humans, but a single white cat could never convince a group of white cats to go out and kill a group of yellow cats.
He said an official from World Vision's New York office had visited Mr. Bolaños, who denied ever invoking the group's name.
In his introduction to the first collection, Christian Salmon, secretary general of the parliament and the editor of the journal, invokes the group's charter as emphasizing "the unfettered republic of language".
Through colleagues, I know that I am far from alone in invoking this group's ire, but invoke it I have- simply as a result of doing my job.
Northcutt invokes a group selectionist, "survival of the species" argument, with individuals selflessly removing themselves from the gene pool.
