Bourrat, Pierrick (2014) Levels of Selection are Artefacts of Different Fitness Temporal Measures. [Preprint]

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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.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Bourrat, Pierrick p.bourrat@gmail.com
Keywords:	Levels of Selection; Species Selection; Multilevel Selection; Natural Selection
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory
Depositing User:	Mr Pierrick Bourrat
Date Deposited:	09 Feb 2014 14:41
Last Modified:	09 Feb 2014 14:41
Item ID:	10341
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory
Date:	2014
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10341

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