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And whatever Whitfield means by evolution's "inescapable logic of selfishness" it is not that everything evolves by within-group selection.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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According to Whitfield, opponents of progressive taxation are pursuing a strategy favored by within-group selection.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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To persuade their peers that between-group selection can be a match for within-group selection, they needed more than rhetoric.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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When we consider traits that benefit others or the whole group at a personal cost, then between-group selection favoring the trait must be strong enough to overcome within-group selection operating against the trait.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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And whatever Whitfield means by evolution's "inescapable logic of selfishness" it is not that everything evolves by within-group selection.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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The thinking at that time indicated that between-group selection was at best a weak influence on evolution when compared to within-group selection.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The good life made practices designed to enhance within-group solidarity superfluous.
Matt J. Rossano: How To Make A Strong Atheist Matt J. Rossano 2011
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The good life made practices designed to enhance within-group solidarity superfluous.
Matt J. Rossano: How To Make A Strong Atheist Matt J. Rossano 2011
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I think conservatives are also in a double bind when it comes to the within-group and external expression of views related to race.
Unfunny = Racist 2009
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This is already regarded as "obvious" among the cognoscenti, including some that prefer the inclusive fitness accounting method to the multilevel selection accounting method, but this quibble should not be confused with the earlier and much more substantive claim that group-level selection is invariably weak compared to within-group selection.
David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates David Sloan Wilson 2011
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