"Group selection" is the controversial theory that natural selection operates not just at the individual level but also at the level of the social group. I recently participated in a conversation at ...

"Group selection" is the controversial theory that natural selection operates not just at the individual level but also at the level of the social group. I recently participated in a conversation at ...

Sociobiology, the discipline founded on Darwin's theory of group evolution, is in theoretical disarray. In a new article evolutionary scientists usher in a new era in evolutionary science. "Although a ...

The evolution of multicellularity is one of the major transitions in evolution. It has occurred independently more than 25 times across different branches of life. Complex multicellular organisms, ...

This coming Sunday (5 pm) at the Hidmo, Pop Life will make these three steps (or moves): one, the inhabitant as the subject of the post-neoliberal moment; two, how the post-neoliberal moment is ...

Researchers have uncovered the first-ever field-based evidence for a biological mechanism called 'group selection' contributing to local adaptation in natural populations. Evolutionary theorists have ...

Group selection drives the composition of colonies of Anelosimus studiosus — a species of social spider in which the females show either 'docile' or 'aggressive' phenotypes — according to the results ...

“Although a high standard of morality gives but a slight or no advantage to each individual man and his children over the other men of the same tribe...an advancement in the standard of morality will ...