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      Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology

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      The Quarterly Review of Biology
      University of Chicago Press

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          Abstract

          Current sociobiology is in theoretical disarray, with a diversity of frameworks that are poorly related to each other Part of the problem is a reluctance to revisit the pivotal events that took place during the 1960s, including the rejection of group selection and the development of alternative theoretical frameworks to explain the evolution of cooperative and altruistic behaviors. In this article, we take a "back to basics" approach, explaining what group selection is, why its rejection was regarded as so important, and how it has been revived based on a more careful formulation and subsequent research. Multilevel selection theory (including group selection) provides an elegant theoretical foundation for sociobiology in the future, once its turbulent past is appropriately understood.

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          Journal
          The Quarterly Review of Biology
          The Quarterly Review of Biology
          University of Chicago Press
          0033-5770
          1539-7718
          December 2007
          December 2007
          : 82
          : 4
          : 327-348
          Article
          10.1086/522809
          18217526
          4ed5f2eb-57bf-410f-93de-f47967e5d57b
          © 2007
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