Lean, Christopher and Doolittle, W. Ford and Bielawski, Joseph (2022) Community-level evolutionary processes: Linking community genetics with replicator-interactor theory. [Preprint]

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Understanding community-level selection using Lewontin’s criteria requires both community-level inheritance and community-level heritability, and in the discipline of community and ecosystem genetics, these are often conflated. While there are existing studies that show the possibility of both, these studies impose community-level inheritance as a product of the experimental design. For this reason, these experiments provide only weak support for the existence of community-level selection in nature. By contrast, treating communities as interactors (in line with Hull’s replicator-interactor framework or Dawkins’s idea of the “extended phenotype”) provides a more plausible and empirically supportable model for the role of ecological communities in the evolutionary process.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Lean, Christopher christopher.hunter.lean@gmail.com 0000-0001-5722-6471 Doolittle, W. Ford Bielawski, Joseph
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology > Molecular Biology/Genetics
Depositing User:	Dr Christopher Lean
Date Deposited:	13 Nov 2022 14:56
Last Modified:	13 Nov 2022 14:56
Item ID:	21406
Official URL:	https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.22025381...
DOI or Unique Handle:	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.220253811
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology > Molecular Biology/Genetics
Date:	2022
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21406

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