Sentence examples for multilevel selection from inspiring English sources

Thus, multilevel selection need not select for the groups with the highest number of cooperators as it is often assumed.

A criticism of multilevel selection theories is that unrestrained individuals will generate more progeny and have a selective advantage over restrained individuals (Kirkwood 2005).

Wilson suggested that religion is a kind of adaptation that evolved by "multilevel selection".

So it appeared that humans are forever conflicted by their prehistory of multilevel selection.

Wilson (and his collaborators Martin Nowak and Corina Tarnita) proposed instead a theory of "multilevel selection", whose name makes it sound more complicated than it is.

"I believe that deep in their heart everyone working on social insects is aware that the selection that created them is multilevel selection," Dr. Wilson said.

To explore this proposition, we develop a multilevel selection model of resource management institutions with endogenous group dynamics.

Our findings suggest an amendment to the well-known doctrine of multilevel selection that "Selfishness beats altruism within groups.

Since that protest, the number of supporters of the multilevel selection approach has grown, to the extent that a similarly long list of signatories could be obtained.

The second, more recently argued theory (full disclosure: I am one of the modern version's authors), the grandmaster is multilevel selection.

One category of hypotheses proposes that PCD is an altruistic trait favored by kin or multilevel selection, conceptually similar to the evolution of reproductive altruism in organisms such as eusocial insects.