The concept of group heritability
Biology and Philosophy 18 (3):445-461 (2003)
Abstract
This paper investigates the role of the concept of group heritability in group selection theory, in relation to the well-known distinction between type 1 and type 2 group selection (GS1 and GS2). I argue that group heritability is required for the operation of GS1 but not GS2, despite what a number of authors have claimed. I offer a numerical example of the evolution of altruism in a multi-group population which demonstrates that a group heritability coefficient of zero is perfectly compatible with the successful operation of group selection in the GS2 sense. A diagnosis of why group heritability has wrongly been regarded as necessary for GS2 is suggested.Author's Profile
Reprint years
2004
DOI
10.1023/a:1024140123391
My notes
Similar books and articles
Transmission coupling mechanisms: cultural group selection.Robert Boyd & Peter J. Richerson - unknown
Shifting the Natural Selection Metaphor to the Group Level.Nicholas S. Thompson - 2000 - Behavior and Philosophy 28 (1/2):83 - 101.
Populational heritability: Extending punnett square concepts to evolution at the metapopulation level. [REVIEW]James R. Griesemer & Michael J. Wade - 2000 - Biology and Philosophy 15 (1):1-17.
Morality and Evolution by Group Selection.Michael Byron - 1999 - Http://Www.Bu.Edu/Wcp/Papers/TEth/TEthByro.Htm.
Evolutionary ethics and biologically supportable morality.Michael Byron - 1999 - Proceedings of Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, PAIDEIA: Philosophy Educating Humanity.
Altruism, group selection and correlated interaction.Samir Okasha - 2005 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56 (4):703-725.
Why won't the group selection controversy go away?Samir Okasha - 2001 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52 (1):25-50.
Models of group selection.Deborah G. Mayo & Norman L. Gilinsky - 1987 - Philosophy of Science 54 (4):515-538.
Niche construction and group selection.Nicholas S. Thompson - 2000 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (1):161-162.
Multi-level selection, covariance and contextual analysis.Samir Okasha - 2004 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (3):481-504.
Analytics
Added to PP
2009-01-28
Downloads
50 (#236,714)
6 months
2 (#298,943)
2009-01-28
Downloads
50 (#236,714)
6 months
2 (#298,943)
Historical graph of downloads
Author's Profile
Citations of this work
References found in this work
The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus.Elliott Sober - 1984 - University of Chicago Press.
Alternative formulations of multilevel selection.John Damuth & I. Lorraine Heisler - 1988 - Biology and Philosophy 3 (4):407-430.
Individualist and multi-level perspectives on selection in structured populations.Benjamin Kerr & Peter Godfrey-Smith - 2002 - Biology and Philosophy 17 (4):477-517.
Unto Others.David Sloan Wilson & Elliott Sober - 2002 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (3):681-684.
Explanatory pluralism in evolutionary biology.Kim Sterelny - 1996 - Biology and Philosophy 11 (2):193-214.