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Reintroducing “Reintroducing group selection to the human behavioral sciences”to BBS readers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Nicholas S. Thompson
Affiliation:
Departments of Biology and Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610 nthompson@clarku.edu

Abstract

Wilson and Sober's (1994t) revival of group selection theory may have failed with some readers because its simple arithmetic foundation was obscured under the complexities of its presentation. When that uncontrovertible principle is uncovered, it broadens dramatically the fundamental motives that social scientists may impute to human nature and still be consistent with Darwinian evolutionary theory.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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