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- Title
Levels of Selection Are Artefacts of Different Fitness Temporal Measures.
- Authors
Bourrat, Pierrick
- Abstract
In this paper I argue against the claim, recently put forward by some philosophers of biology and evolutionary biologists, that there can be two or more ontologically distinct levels of selection. I show by comparing the fitness of individuals with that of collectives of individuals in the same environment and over the same period of time - as required to decide if one or more levels of selection is acting in a population - that the selection of collectives is a by-product of selection at the individual level; thus, talking about two or more levels of selection represents merely a different perspective on one and the same process.
- Subjects
NATURAL selection; BIOLOGICAL evolution; PHYSICAL fitness; HEALTH; PHILOSOPHERS
- Publication
Ratio, 2015, Vol 28, Issue 1, p40
- ISSN
0034-0006
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/rati.12053