Evolution and the Levels of Selection
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Author(s)Samir Okasha
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN / ASIN0199556717
ISBN-139780199556717
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Sales Rank1,459,091
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Does natural selection act primarily on individual organisms, on groups, on genes, or on whole species? The question of levels of selection - on which biologists and philosophers have long disagreed - is central to evolutionary theory and to the philosophy of biology. Samir Okasha's comprehensive analysis gives a clear account of the philosophical issues at stake in the current debate.