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Philosophical Aspects of the Group Selection Controversy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

John Cassidy
John Cassidy*
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SUNY at Albany
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Abstract

This article is primarily a study of the group selection controversy, with special emphasis on the period from 1962 to the present, and the rise of inclusive fitness theory. Interest is focused on the relations between individual fitness theory and other fitness theories and on the methodological imperatives used in the controversy over the status of these theories. An appendix formalizes the notion of “assertive part” which is used in the informal discussion of the methodological imperatives elicited from the controversy.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , December 1978 , pp. 575 - 594
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1978

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