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Processes and patterns of interaction as units of selection: An introduction to ITSNTS thinking.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Apr 2018

Doolittle W Ford, Inkpen S Andrew

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Many practicing biologists accept that nothing in their discipline makes sense except in the light of evolution, and that natural selection is evolution's principal sense-maker. But what natural selection actually is (a force or a statistical outcome, for example) and the levels of the biological hierarchy (genes, organisms, species, or even ecosystems) at which it operates directly are still actively disputed...

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PMID: 29581311
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1722232115
PMCID: PMC5910863

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