Category Archives: Group Selection

Can Biologists Admit We Are Wrong? Dunno. But We Will Say Other Biologists Are Wrong

Posted on March 24, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

Because we are human after all. On the virtues of reaching a (loose) consensus.
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Posted in Economics, Evolution, Genetics, Group Selection, Microbiology | 4 Comments

Dear Intelligent Designer…Levels of Selection

Posted on July 21, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

Again. ScienceBlogling razib discusses some noises various biologists are making about levels of selection. Sweet Baby Intelligent Designer, save us from this madness.
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Posted in Evolution, Group Selection, WhatEVAH! | 6 Comments

PNAS Colloquium on Adaptation and Biological Design

Posted on May 15, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has posted of all of the articles from In the light of evolution I: Adaptation and complex design .
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Posted in Education, Evolution, Group Selection, Lotsa Links, Microbiology | Comments Off on PNAS Colloquium on Adaptation and Biological Design

Chickens and Group Selection

Posted on January 24, 2007 by mikethemadbiologist

A while ago, Bora referred to a short article about David Sloan Wilson, whose research program examines group selection (among other things). Any discussion of group selection is almost always contentious, largely because there is a fundamental confusion (or conflation) of two different phenomena: the evolution of groups and selection among groups (i.e., group selection).
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Posted in Evolution, Group Selection | 6 Comments