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Explanatory goals and explanatory means in multilevel selection theory.

History and philosophy of the life sciences - 10 Aug 2020

Jeler Ciprian

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It has become customary in multilevel selection theory to use the same terms (namely "multilevel selection 1" and "multilevel selection 2") to denote both two explanatory goals (explaining why certain individual- and, respectively, group-level traits spread) and two explanatory means (namely, two kinds of group selection we may appeal to in such explanations). This paper spells out some of the benefits that...

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PMID: 32779040
DOI: 10.1007/s40656-020-00333-y

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