Sentence examples for units of selection from inspiring English sources

Herein cells are the units of selection.

* Creationism * Fitness * The Units of Selection Problem * Adaptionism * Systematics * Sociobiology and the Extension of Evolutionary Theory.

It is tempting to speculate that one consequence of compartmentation of genomes dynamics by methylation is that this might create additional units of selection.

A brief chapter on "memes," the term for cultural units of selection coined by Richard Dawkins and recently elaborated by Susan Blackmore, simply underlines this in being largely disconnected from the rest of the book.

We propose that the aggregate variable descriptions of mutation selection systems offer a potential formal definition of units of selection and evolution.

Understanding the response to selection is particularly challenging in the case of evolutionary transitions in individuality, because these transitions involve a shift in the very units of selection.

So far, no one has directly claimed that evolvers are units of selection.

According to this view phenotypic traits are the targets or units of selection (Jablonka 2004).

To take a simple example, suppose someone proposes that all evolutionary individuals (also called units of selection) are organisms.

Therefore, Maynard Smith does require a group-level adaptation from groups to count as units of selection.

Questions relating to evolvability are also tied up with difficult issues relating to the units-of-selection debate (Okasha 2006).