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- You are incorrect, but I understand your skepticism.
You can check out by finding more about Dawkins-Wilson debates and all graduate level evolutionary biology textbooks. Wilson group selection theory does not add anything to inclusive fitness.
Animal Behavior, Dustin R. Rubenstein, John Alcock, Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press, Year: 2018, ISBN: 1605355488,9781605355481
> Although most social evolutionary biologists use the individual selection perspective derived from kin selection theory, David Sloan Wilson and others have complained that the preference for kin selection theory stems from prejudice against the rejected Wynne-Edwardsian version of group selection (Wilson and Wilson 2007). But as Stuart West and his colleagues have pointed out, kin selection theory is widely accepted primarily because it has helped so many researchers develop testable hypotheses for puzzling social behaviors exhibited by creatures as different as termites, bacteria, amoebae, and humans (West et al. 2011). Nonetheless, other researchers have continued to attack kin selection theory. For example, Martin Nowak, Corina Tarnita, and E. O. Wilson claimed that kin selection theory should be discarded altogether in favor of an alternative mathematical approach (Nowak et al. 2011). Yet few researchers agree with this idea, for reasons spelled out by Andrew Bourke (Bourke 2011a) and a team led by David Queller (Liao et al. 2015), as well as those outlined by more than 100 behavioral biologists in a response to Nowak and his colleagues’ paper (Abbot et al. 2011). Thus, inclusive fitness theory continues to be a guiding framework for understanding cooperation, altruism, and the evolution of sociality more broadly, primarily because it produces clear, testable hypotheses, something that the concept of group selection largely fails to do.
- Nice! "Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach, Alcock" and "Evolution, Ridley" were mentioned in the seminars if you want to put some more books on the list :-)
