Group selection is a proposed mechanism of evolution in which natural selection acts at the level of the group, instead of at the level of the individual...

Cultural group selection is an explanatory model within cultural evolution of how cultural traits evolve according to the competitive advantage they bestow...

Group Selection is a 1971 book edited by George C. Williams, containing papers written by biologists arguing against the view of group selection as a major...

Social selection, within social groups Selection (linguistics), the ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments Selection in...

popularised the term "natural selection", contrasting it with artificial selection, which is intentional, whereas natural selection is not. Variation of traits...

was best known for his advocacy of group selection, the theory that natural selection acts at the level of the group. He was born in Leeds on 4 July 1906...

Kin selection is a process whereby natural selection favours a trait due to its positive effects on the reproductive success of an organism's relatives...

Adaptation and Natural Selection (1966), which argued that altruism is not based upon group benefit per se, but results from selection that occurs "at the...

Natural Selection was an American pop group, best known for their 1991 hit "Do Anything", which reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100. It also peaked...

potential of a group. In addition, the theory of group selection is inherently tied to Darwin's theory of natural selection. Specifically, that "group-related...

control group should represent those at risk of becoming a case. Controls should come from the same population as the cases, and their selection should...

self-replicating molecule, a gene, a cell, an organism, a group, or a species) that is subject to natural selection. There is debate among evolutionary biologists...

successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics...

book Neural Darwinism introduced the public to the theory of neuronal group selection (TNGS), a theory that attempts to explain global brain function. TNGS...

Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) is a...

Selection bias is the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups, or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved...

beneficial to the group as a whole and was thus seen by some to support the group selection theory. Another interpretation is kin selection: if the males...

alternative to the "group selection" theory emerged. This was the kin selection theory, due originally to W. D. Hamilton. Kin selection is an instance of...

considered to be in the "shadow region" of selection." Group selection is based on the idea that all members of a given group will either succeed or fail together...

1986. Evolution Through Group Selection. Blackwell. ISBN 0-632-01541-1 Maynard Smith, J. (1964). "Group selection and kin selection". Nature. 201 (4924):...

chemistry, a selection rule, or transition rule, formally constrains the possible transitions of a system from one quantum state to another. Selection rules...

anglerfish) as organisms. If group selection occurs, then a group could be viewed as a superorganism, optimized by group adaptation. Another view is that...

on group selection. Group selection posits that natural selection operates at the group level, favoring traits that are beneficial for the group rather...

by finishing in the top two, outside the group selection, of the individual FEI Olympic Rankings for Group F (Africa and Middle East). In September 2020...

Staff Selection Commission (SSC) is an organisation under the Government of India to recruit staff for various posts in the various ministries and departments...

of multi-level (group) selection in five steps: Formation of groups: Groups could consist of parent-offspring groups or unrelated groups (in situations...

In population genetics, directional selection is a type of natural selection in which one extreme phenotype is favored over both the other extreme and...

notions of evolutionary progress, and criticizes contemporary models of group selection, including the theories of Alfred Emerson, A. H. Sturtevant, and to...

of gene-centred selection. E.O. Wilson argued that evolution may also act upon groups. The mechanisms responsible for group selection employ paradigms...

selection, and he relied on group selection to explain the evolution of altruistic (self-sacrificing) behavior. But group selection was considered a weak explanation...