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Abundant empirical evidence of multilevel selection revealed by a bibliometric review

2025-07-31

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Natural selection is based on the notion of differential reproduction between entities, often characterized as a struggle between individual organisms. However, natural selection can act at all levels of biological organization, thus being termed ‘multilevel selection’ (MLS). A common misconception is that MLS lacks empirical support. To address this, we conducted a bibliometric review of 2,950 Web of Science/Scop...

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Literature Corpus work: f204e11c-7a31-54ae-a107-e602e8456d44
DOI: 10.32942/x25s84

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